Beautiful People

So People magazine came out with their annual “beautiful people” issue and once again I felt I should weigh in with my opinion (despite not having read this particular issue). I am thinking that with the tremendous shift in “hot topics” beauty and glamour should be passé and Character should be front and centre.

My choice is clear – David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg.

Attenborough has been bringing nature to us for countless decades (after all he is 92 years old and as sharp as ever). I recently watched an absolutely horrifying clip from his latest Netflix series that showed walruses literally falling off cliffs and dying on the rocks below which still has been in shock. Our natural world has passed the brink of crisis and if we don’t act NOW to stop climate change we are going to lose a lot more animals and plants to extinction. It will be catastrophic as well as tragic.

Sixteen year old Greta Thunberg has rallied a global demand for political and economic action to fight climate change. She began a solitary school strike outside the Swedish parliament in August of 2018 but soon attracted media attention that has led to 1.4 million students around the globe joining her in the school strikes, demanding that politicians “and adults” do something about the threat to our planet.

In their own very different ways and with decades between them in age these are two world heroes in standing up for this planet we call Earth. I salute you and call you Beautiful People from the inside out.