Actions from Greta Thunberg and youth organizers around the world
'It's Our Time to Rise Up': Youth Climate Strikes Held in 100 Countries | The Guardian
“In August 2018 Thunberg began a solo climate protest by striking from school in Sweden when aged 15. She has since been joined by tens of thousands of school and university students in Australia, Belgium, Germany, the United States, Japan and more than a dozen other countries.” Authors: Sandra Laville, Matthew Taylor and Daniel Hurst, published March 15, 2019
Fridays for Future“#FridaysForFuture is a youth-led and -organised movement that began in August 2018, after 15-year-old Greta Thunberg and other young activists sat in front of the Swedish parliament every schoolday for three weeks, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis.”
Video: Greta Thunberg Full Speech at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference | Connect4Climate“Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.” December 15, 2018 [03:29]
Video: The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change | TEDx“The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.” [11:12]
Video: Greta Thunberg Urges MEPs to ‘Panic Like the House is on Fire’ | EURACTIVIn another speech to EU officials, “this time in front of the Parliament’s environment committee, Thunberg told MEPs that ‘I want you to act like the house is on fire. I want you to panic.’” This video was featured in tUrn Spring 2020. [13:15]
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