Meet Thailand's answer to Greta Thunberg. She's only 12, but her passion is already p

[David48atTD]

It's a sweaty Saturday morning in Bangkok, and while most 12-year-olds are winding down for the year, Ralyn Satidtanasan — or Lilly as she's called — is getting ready to scoop plastic out of a canal.


"There's so much single-use plastic in this canal alone, imagine how much there is in the ocean," she tells the ABC on a boat in a canal in north-west Bangkok.


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"It's extremely shocking because if you think about it, this is just not even 1 per cent of what we're seeing in the oceans today."
Lilly is a regular at weekly Bangkok events organised by Trash Hero — a volunteer group that picks up rubbish at dozens of locations around the world.


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[cyrille]

There's nothing Thailand can't knock out a copy of.

Good to see her passion is 'already p'.

[prawnograph]

Before Greta ...

22 established Trash Hero groups across Thailand, mostly in coastal areas

Local one, Chanthaburi, started in 2017
In that time, has completed 116 cleanups involving 1365 adult volunteers and 324 children, collected 11,921kg of trash

[Neverna]

Lilly skips school, too.




Anyway, it's good to see the "news" being recycled. Here's an article about her from last September.


https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...plastic-waste/

Lilly, Thailand's Greta Thunberg, wages war on plastic waste blighting her homeland

Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out garbage in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day.

“I am a kid at war,” the bubbly 12-year-old says after a painstaking hourlong routine picking up cans, bags and bottles bobbing in the canal. “I try to stay optimistic but I am also angry. Our world is disappearing,” she adds.

Lilly is Ralyn Satidtanasarn’s nickname.

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And from 5 June last year ...


Lilly, Thailand?s Greta Thunberg, Is Fighting Single-use Plastic

LILLY, THAILAND’S GRETA THUNBERG, IS FIGHTING SINGLE-USE PLASTIC

Through the power of petitioning, one 11-year-old girl is doing more to save Thailand’s environment than perhaps most of the country combined.

Since she was 8, Ralyn “Lilly” Satidtanasarn has been meeting with mall executives to demand reductions in single-use plastic waste. Central Group’s recent decision to stop automatic bagging in its malls is due in part to her petition.

“I want to ask him for help,” Lilly said by phone Tuesday. She was at Government House hoping to meet Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, though she ultimately didn’t get to.

Quietly in the background of school climate strikes and the Greta Thunberg movement, Lilly has been meeting directly with officials to lobby for policy change. A sixth grader at St. Andrews International School, Lilly spends about three to four days a week visiting other schools and meeting both government and corporate officials.

[HuangLao]

Only if they're completely committed and living their protest as well.
Requires a firm rally, stable consciousness, and lifestyle readjustment among the broad collective, otherwise such actions are moot.

A lovely and heartwarming story to distract from the larger picture.

[taxexile]

This girl is out there with a smile on her face doing something, unlike that fucking loon greta with her blaming, her anger, her shouting and her holier than thou its all about me virtue signalling.

Incredible how the western media and all the millionaire carbon wasting celebs have been taken in and gone apeshit for the poor depressed little thunberg gnome.

[David48atTD]

Anyway, it's good to see the "news" being recycled. Here's an article about her from last September.

Nev, I think it came back into the News cycle for a number of reasons.

The holiday season is traditionally a quiet period for News.

There is a link between her and the plastic bag ban.

I did search the forum to see if anyone had reported her work before.

[Wally Dorian Raffles]

This girl is out there with a smile on her face doing something, unlike that fucking loon greta with her blaming, her anger, her shouting and her holier than thou its all about me virtue signalling.

Incredible how the western media and all the millionaire carbon wasting celebs have been taken in and gone apeshit for the poor depressed little thunberg gnome.

Do you think Greta would have been noticed if she was quiet and polite?

[Pragmatic]

Do you think Greta would have been noticed if she was quiet and polite?

David Attenborough and many other environmentalist have.

[kmart]

Good for her. There are a few similar volunteer-type organizations around here in Rayong that pick trash, plastic and crap up off the beaches at weekends.

Hopefully, a slow momentum building and not just a fad.

[Luigi]

Well, we've started taking in our own Long-life shopping bags every time we go shopping now, where previously they sat forgotten in the boot.


One knock on effect is we have to buy small bin bags for the bins around the house, which does negate the whole thing a little bit.


Good on this kid, good to see a child promoting that lifestyle that doesn't have mental problems and isn't being put up in front of the World in a way that could likely harm her.

[terry57]

That little trollup Bumburg needs a fookin bullet, imagine marrying the raving hormonal fookin thing. Fook me. ???????

But that Thai girl is right on the money, doing good shit without being a complete and utter wankstain.

Just saying eh.

[David48atTD]

Well, we've started taking in our own Long-life shopping bags every time we go shopping now, where previously they sat forgotten in the boot.

One knock on effect is we have to buy small bin bags for the bins around the house, which does negate the whole thing a little bit.

Good on this kid, good to see a child promoting that lifestyle that doesn't have mental problems and isn't being put up in front of the World in a way that could likely harm her.

Yep +1

Well said.

... and, BTW her English is darn good!

[HuangLao]

David Attenborough and many other environmentalist have.

The reality that mouthy and radical environmentalists don't receive mainstream/conventional attention rings true, as these types are usually cast threatening or offensive to the establishment, less the everyday lives of most everyone.

[Farang Ky Ay]

^ Agree, the assessment of the situation, it's causes, how it evolves and the consequences have been addressed for years by a number of scientists but I guess it required a young and angry "mascot" for the message to be acknowledged.

The "angry" part may be a symbol, as older generations are leaving quite a bruised world to younger generations who didn't took part in the ruining the earth?
Yes she's fabricated, but I guess people needed something like that to get the idea...
Manipulated? Maybe because people who did push her to the front may have an agenda, exploiting the situation to prevent emerging countries to develop like the west did, maybe by creating penalties etc ...a good way for traditional powers to retain their edge?