The message, in German, across the effigy of Greta Thunberg holding by the ear a couple labelled “parents’ generation” was not that the young Swedish activist was finally taking action, as our caption said. A better translation of the words on the carnival float in Dusseldorf has the 16-year-old activist telling her elders: “Do something, finally, to combat the climate catastrophe!” (“They see us as a threat because we are having an impact”, 21 July, the New Review, page 8).
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