So many thanks to all the young people who are stepping up,” said Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org.Īround the world, so many student strikes are now taking place or planned that it is becoming hard to keep up. It throws the generational challenge of global warming into its sharpest relief, and challenges adults to prove they are, actually, adults. “The movement that Greta launched is one of the most hopeful things in my 30 years of working on the climate question. Veteran climate campaigners are astonished by what has been achieved in such a short time. She then travels on to Paris to join the school strikes now expanding in France. Next week she will take the train to Brussels – having decided not to fly due to the high carbon emissions of aviation – to speak at an event alongside Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European commission. The movement she started has morphed and grown around the world and, at times, linked up with older groups, including Extinction Rebellion, 350.org and Greenpeace. And I think many of you here today belong to that group of people.” She said: “Some people, some companies, some decision-makers in particular, have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money. Last month, she had similarly harsh words for the global business elite at Davos. In December, she spoke at the United Nations climate conference, berating world leaders for behaving like irresponsible children. Thunberg has risen rapidly in prominence and influence. I think what we are seeing is the beginning of great changes and that is very hopeful,” Thunberg wrote in a social media post.
We are in the middle of the biggest crisis in human history and basically nothing is being done to prevent it. “I think enough people have realized just how absurd the situation is. The 16-year-old welcomed the huge mobilization planned in the UK, with demonstrations by tens of thousands of school and university students in Australia, Belgium, Germany, the United States, Japan, and more than a dozen other countries. Greta Thunberg is hopeful the student climate strike on March 15 can bring about positive change, as young people in more and more countries join the protest movement she started last summer as a lone campaigner outside the Swedish parliament.
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