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Stuff have in my opinion very foolishly put up an item praising the 15-year-old climate activist from Wellington, Micah Geiringer.

“climate rebel arrested at 15”. Wow how awesome Stuff! The journalist has elevated him to Greta heights by describing him as the ‘unlikely hero’ of the action, his heroic action being nothing more than going against common sense and his mother’s advice and gluing his hand to the door of the bank and getting arrested.

KEVIN STENT/STUFF

Well Tom Hunt, journalist, that is no hero in my book. A hero is a teenager who rescues a woman from a crashed car and saves her from drowning, a hero is a teenager who sits beside a 15-year-old friend dying of cancer, a hero is a teenager who defends a friend from bullies etc etc. But elevating a disobedient, school skipping teenager for glueing his hand to a door and being arrested and taken home to a ‘realistic but proud’ mum, to hero status is tragic. I’ll save my respect for the other teenagers.

A real hero: The late Khyler Edman,15, and his 5-year-old sister. Ryan Clayton Cole (inset) is suspected of killing him during a home invasion. | Photo: GoFundMe; Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office

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