Greta Thonberg, 16, from Sweden, fell into a depression and selective mutism as she was faced with the sober reality that the future of this planet is threatened by fossil fuel addiction. So she refused to go to school for the first weeks of this past fall semester, instead demanding that her government follow the Paris Climate Accord to dramatically reduce green house gas emission.
If you look HERE at the rise of the Student Strike for Climate movement, Greta is marked as the first person to take this stand, she having been inspired by the youth activism of the Parkland school shooting.
Greta hit the headlines at her talk at Davos. “I want you to panic.” Her clarion call to the world’s leaders to take immediate and radical action to prevent the geometric rise in climate catastrophe. This is a beautiful call for to shake up and wake up those who are leading us down the road of global suicide.
HERE is Greta at her recent TED Talk. Her ability to cut to the point has the maturity greater than the vast majority of public officials. It is the innocence of her fresh outlook as a young person that is making her look at the adults in the room, saying, why aren’t you doing anything about the fact that we are in the 6th great extinction with over 200 species going extinct every day, caused largely by human activity.
This is so inspiring and the clarity of her voice as well as her principals and commitments is so heroic.
Thank you Greta for being such an inspiration and for sounding this powerful call to action.
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