“This is the kids leading the fight against climate change”
“When the adult is no longer able to manage the world arise from a power vacuum.”
“A void that Greta Thunberg and an explosively growing group of young people the world over are trying to fill.”
“Or like they just truant from school?”
“It began as a single protest of a 15-year-old girl against politicians and the adult world’s inability to deal with the climate threat has in record time grown to a world-wide movement of considerable dimensions.nAustralien, united states, Africa, the united kingdom, Belgium, Canada.”
“the List of continents and countries where teenage girls copied the Gretas struggle to grow faster than a rolling snowball. Ever since the Swedish 15-year-old kept his cheeky speech at the climate summit in Poland in december, in which she accused the adult world for that. ”
“It’s easy to understand why Gretas skolprotest brought so many other young people. The last few years have all been able to see on the ground how the climate seems to have flipped out. Many feel fear and anxiety.”
“In Australia in recent months measured temperature records. Lets 49 degrees in Port Augusta pleasant? It is not just about rekordtoppar but long-lasting heatwaves where the mercury has not gone down below 30 degrees even at night. Shunted with extreme rainfalls.”
“the united states are affected by ever more powerful hurricanes that transforms villas for kaffeved. Extreme drought leads to svårsläckta forest fires, forcing tens of thousands of people on the run, and even in the outskirts of metropolises such as Los Angeles. A few months later to be replaced by the arctic cold down over the Midwest.”
“The past Swedish rekordsommaren occurred not only in Sweden. Large parts of Europe were hit by extreme weather, and deadly forest fires.”
“young people in Particular seem to have häpnat over how responsible the adults are seemingly handsfallna. They talk about all the countermeasures that should be taken but act then not at all. Or do far too little. This is despite the fact that most people nowadays are fairly agreed that it is scientifically proven that humans with their emissions accelerate global warming and thus threatening the conditions for the continuity of the race’s continued survival on the planet.”
“It is the youth of today and their children who will suffer the worst. Perhaps not so strange that they therefore try to act a blowtorch in the end on the paralyzed decision-makers.”
“the Children are accustomed to look up to their parents and to adults to protect them. When the unspoken agreement is broken, stops the adults to be role models. The activists feel that they must take their fate in their own hands.”
“I think their movement got a boost by the general dismantling of the liberal world order, which creates chaos and unrest in the world. With the irresponsible and authoritarian leaders such as Donald Trump, Viktor Orban, and Matteo Salvini in power, it is obvious that the climate problem and other important issues that require cooperation across national borders been long down on the agenda.”
“the adult world has responded twice on all the Greta-copies. Many are provoked.”
“Australia’s prime minister, Scott Morrison, urged the young people to devote themselves less to the activism, and more for school work. The minister for natural resources claimed that the only young people learn to demonstrate is ”
“of Course it is not good if pupils play truant from school just to drive around on the streets and in the squares. But if they are driven by a commitment to saving our earth, give the work to organise and conduct demonstrations, probably as much as an entire semester of lessons in the social studies.”
“In Sweden it is an offence against the act, and thus fall under the category of civil disobedience. Right or wrong is the only way to make a difference and create a public opinion in such a matter is to stretch the boundaries.”
“But even those who sympathize with the young people, the struggle must not forget the climate issues of complexity. We can not from one day to the other replace fossildrivna vehicles with electric cars or stop flying. The alignment needs to be speeded up, but at a level that our societies are capable of.”
“Otherwise, there is still not much to preserve for posterity.”
“Alexandria Villasenor, 13 years, the united states demonstrates every week in front of the UN building in New York city in spite of many degrees below zero, harsh winds and whipping rain.”
“Ann Taylor, 17 years, the Uk is one of those who started the movement Youth for Climate, which has arranged rallies in several hundred british cities.”
“Lilly Flat, 10 years old, the Netherlands belongs to the very youngest, who, inspired by the Swedish Greta. Lilly has taken the initiative. ”
“Anuna De Wever, 17 years old and Kyra Ganbtois, 19 years, Belgium has been arranged skolstrejkerna where tens of thousands of students participating every Thursday.”
“Harriet OShea, 14 years and Milou Albrecht, 14 years, Australia’s classmates and took the joint initiative to the first skolstrejkerna in the country in the state of Victoria. Since then, the strikes spread over the whole of Australia that have experienced extreme weather.”
“Greta Thunberg, 15 years, Sweden is the model that all the others have taken after. But she was herself inspired by the students ‘ protests at Parkland High School in Florida after a masskjutning there. Greta has become an international celebrity who’s spoken to both ahead of the climate summit in Katowice and the european Parliament. She is now the spider in the international network, the young activists the world over formed.”