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South Sudan has lost
five years and an esti-
mated 383,000 souls
to civil war, and the
challenges of speak-
ing truth to power at
Nimiriano’s newspaper
range from gas short-
ages to death threats.
When security forces
hauled a colleague to
jail and told her to shut
down the paper, she
persuaded them to
release him and let her
publish. The battles will
surely continue.
At a time when U.S.
lawmakers are divided
over reining in Big Tech,
Vestager has shown
how it can be done. She
fined Google a total of
$9 billion for alleged
anticompetitive be-
havior, sought $15 bil-
lion in back taxes from
Apple (both moves
are being appealed),
and is investigating
Facebook. Dismissive
of industry excuses,
Vestager says: “If
it’s your algorithm, it’s
your responsibility.”
GRETA THUNBERG ISN’T HERE TO INSPIRE YOU; she’s here to give you anxiety.
“I don’t want your hope,” the 16-year-old climate activist said in a
speech at the World Economic Forum this year. “I don’t want you to
be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every
day. And then I want you to act.” In September, she started skipping
school on Fridays so she could protest government inaction on climate
change at Sweden’s Parliament in Stockholm. Her one-woman sit-in
ballooned into some 1,700 “climate strikes,” largely by youth, on
March 15, under her “Fridays for Future” banner. The mass protest
garnered the support of leaders from New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern to
Paris Mayor Anne Hildalgo—and earned her a Nobel Peace Prize nod.
Climate change, left unchecked, will cause wars, conflict, and refugee
crises, said Freddy André Ovstegard, a Norwegian lawmaker who nomi-
nated her, so Thunberg’s movement is “a major contribution to peace.”
I don’t
want you
to be
hopeful.
I want you
to panic.
I want you
to feel the
fear I feel
every day.
And then
I want you
to act.Ó
GRETA THUNBERG
Addressing the
World Economic
Forum, Jan. 25
STUDENT AND CLIMATE ACTIVIST, SWEDEN
margrethe vestager
Commissioner for
Competition,
European Union
anna nimiriano
Editor-in-Chief,
Juba Monitor
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