Their hypocrisy is even worse when you consider Greta Thunberg’s maternal grandparents’ side of the family, who were Swedish captains of industry, full of conservative capitalists. The bodybuilding singer Malena and Fake News say very little about them because it would contradict the impish
Earth Mother theme they dreamt up for Greta. A detailed page about Malena’s family tree, translated into English, is
here, with a backup screen recording
here.
Malena Ernman’s real name is
Magdalena Ernman, and her mother was an orphan. Her father, Lars Ernman, was a Chief Financial Officer for the
Sandvik Group, a Swedish company, founded in 1862. According to Wikipedia, Sandvik is a “high-technology engineering group in tools and tooling systems for metal cutting, equipment, tools and services for the mining and construction industries, products in advanced stainless steel and special alloys as well as products for industrial heating. It has about 42,000 employees and sales in more than 160 countries. Invoiced sales are approximately SEK 100 billion (2018).”
Lars’s father, Karl Andersson,
who changed his surname to Ernman, was the purchasing manager for Mo & Domsjö AB, Örnsköldsvik (now
Holmen). Its business is in the forest, pulp, and paper industries. He was Greta Thunberg’s great grandfather.
Greta’s maternal grandmother Eva was adopted, but her biological father was a civil engineer and Vice President of
Tetra Pak. From Wikipedia: “Tetra Pak is a multinational food packaging and processing sub-company of Tetra Laval, with head offices in Sweden and Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice-cream and prepared food, including distribution tools like accumulators, cap applicators, conveyors, crate packers, film wrappers, line controllers and straw applicators.”
Looking at the diagram on the right, you can see that each of Malena’s parents come from a long line of innovative industrial business people. Lars’ ancestors included crowds of millers, merchants, and traders in textiles and other industries, up to 1758, followed by Frisks, Fresks, Anderssons, and Ernmans –
all industrial directors and masters of commerce.
Lars Fresk, 1758 to 1830, was knighted in 1803 for his outstanding work in Industry.
Eve’s family are much the same, with Buscks running Swedish textiles as merchants, traders, and clothing manufactures. They founded industries and employed thousands for 157 years, from 1701 to 1858, and were followed by more Buscks, Ermins, and others. Johan Georg Busck was part owner and manager of
Almedahls Fabriker in Gothenburg for 40 years.
With so many distinguished Swedish business-people, stretching back centuries, you can imagine what they would think about Malena Ernman, and her daughter Greta Thunberg, with their ‘carbon footprint’ cult.
How ashamed they would be.
There are thousands of dynasties like these in the world – assemblies of talented and hard-working individuals with quality upbringings and high work ethics. Why, these days, do they often wind up with dumbed-down anti-industry fools like Greta Thunberg and her parents?