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Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg is a youth climate strike leader in Sweden.

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	Views Friday, July 19, 2019 Until Emissions Drop, Nothing Has Been Accomplished: The Climate Resistance Handbook Is Here. Common Dreams editor's note: The following excerpts are taken from the Foreward, by 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, and the Introduction, by 350.org campaigner Daniel Hunter, of the new Climate Resistance Handbook (Or, I Was Part of a Climate Action. Now What?) recently published online. If you're... Read more
	Views Friday, March 15, 2019 Think We Should Be at School? Today’s Climate Strike Is the Biggest Lesson of All It started in front of the Swedish parliament, on 20 August – a regular school day. Greta Thunberg sat with her painted sign and some homemade flyers . This was the first school climate strike . Fridays wouldn’t be regular schooldays any longer. The rest of us, and many more alongside us, picked it... Read more
	Views Sunday, February 03, 2019 In Response to Lies and Hate, Let Me Make Some Things Clear About My Climate Strike Editor's note: Originally posted to Facebook, the following is a statement from 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as a response to circulating "rumors and lies" as well as "enormous amounts of hate" directed at her as a result of her high-profile role inspiring the growing youth-... Read more
	Views Friday, January 25, 2019 My Message to Davos Elites: Act As If Our House Is on Fire. Because It Is. The following is a slightly edited version of remarks delivered by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, January 25, 2018. Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. According to the IPCC (... Read more
	Views Tuesday, November 27, 2018 I'm Striking From School to Protest Inaction on Climate Change – You Should Too I first learnt about climate change when I was eight years old. I learnt that this was something humans had created. I was told to turn off the lights to save energy and recycle paper to save resources. I remember thinking it was very strange that we were capable of changing the entire face of the... Read more