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LIFE & SOUL SEPTEMBER 3 2018
Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg describes herself as a “climate radical” and is protesting outside Sweden’s parliament every day and refusing to go to school until Sweden’s general election on 9 September, to draw attention to the climate crisis.
The teenager, who began to get engaged in environmental issues from the age of 11, is calling on politicians to take climate issues seriously.
The flyers she has with her for passersby to read use state: “We kids often don’t do what you tell us to do. We do as you do. And since you grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either”.
Since school term began, the young activist has been sat outside the parliament
during school
hours. She takes her books with her so she doesn’t fall behind on her studies.
Sweden is aiming to become carbon neutral by 2045. And while Sweden may have a reputation worldwide for being environmentally conscious, according to
Greta Thunberg it’s “too little too late”. She said: “It needs to come much faster. Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest
carbon
footprints.”
Following an extreme heatwave and widespread wildfires this summer, climate issues have pushed up the agenda for many voters. Some surveys show that climate policy is now the second most important issue for voters ahead of the 9 September election, with only immigration considered more pressing.
Greta Thunberg hopes her protest will help ensure that climate issues stay on top of the agenda, as she urges politicians “to treat it as the crisis it is”.
By Rosa Medea
Here is the full text of her speech at
COP24 in
Poland:
CNN
DECEMBER 17 2018
Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swedish environmental activist, all but shamed the 190 countries represented at the
United Nations COP24 conference in Poland last week.
The young activist accused negotiators — gathered in Katowice to establish rules for the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement on
climate change — of abandoning future generations. "You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes," Thunberg said during an address to attendees on Wednesday.
The so-called "Paris Rulebook" agreed to on Saturday falls short of achieving its goals. Scientists and negotiators say that countries would have to do far more than what the rules stipulate to curb fossil fuel use and deforestation and avoid severe weather associated with global warming.
Thunberg, who became a symbol for youth climate activism after skipping school to protest climate change outside of Sweden's Parliament in September, has inspired thousands of children to rally for climate justice.
By Lawrence Davidson
A
BIT ABOUT
GRETA
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist. She is known for striking outside the Swedish parliament building to raise climate change activism, speaking at TEDxStockholm, and addressing the
COP24 UN climate
conference.
Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003. Her mother is Malena Ernman, a Swedish opera singer. Thunberg's father is Svante Thunberg, who is an actor named after Svante Arrhenius. Arrhenius is an ancestor of her father, and won a
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for calculating the effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Her grandfather is Olof Thunberg, an actor and a director.
Thunberg has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
PRIZES
AND AWARDS
Thunberg was one of the winners of Svenska Dagbladet's debate article writing competition on the climate for young people in May 2018. In the World Nature Fund's prize the young environmental hero of the year 2018, Thunberg is one of the three nominees. Thunberg was nominated for the
electricity company Telge Energi's prize for children and young people who promote
sustainable
development, Children's Climate Prize, but declined because the finalists would have to fly to Stockholm. In November 2018, she was awarded the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year. In December 2018,
Time magazine named Thunberg one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers.
AFTONBLADET SVENSKA HJALTAR NOVEMBER 2018
Hundratals australiska skolelever lämnar den här veckan klassrummen för att demonstrera för en bättre miljöpolitik.
De manifesterande ungdomarna har inspirerats av svenska Greta Thunberg.
nför valet skippade Malena Ernmans dotter Greta Thunberg, 15, skolan och strejkade framför riksdagshuset för att uppmärksamma hur viktigt hon tycker det är med klimatfrågor.
Nyheten om den svenska 15-åringen har skapat ringar på vattnet. Filmstjärnan och ex-guvernören Arnold Schwarzenegger har bjudit in henne till ett klimatmöte. Nu har skolelever i Canberra i Australien också valt att gå i Thunbergs fotspår. I en debattartikel i australiska The Guardian uppmanar hon unga som vill se förändring att aktivt göra något åt det.
Vill få politiker att tänka efter
200 barn och 100 föräldrar samlades under onsdagsmorgonen utanför parlamentet i i huvudstaden Canberra med slagord för miljön skrivna på sina plakat.
– Jag strejkar för att få politiker att tänka över de beslut som de tar och hur de påverkar mig. Jag kan inte rösta men jag har ändå rätt till en framtid och en värld som går att leva i, säger Ayo Sullivan, 8, till Sydney Morning Herald.
De är en del av en landsomfattande protest organiserade av den studentbaserade aktivistgruppen School Strike 4-action. Kring 15 000 elever på 30 platser runt om i Australien, bland annat Melbourne, Brisbane och Perth, gick under fredagen ut i protest.
Premiärministern: ”Mindre aktivism i skolorna”
Precis som när Greta Thunberg strejkade vållar agerandet debatt.
Premiärministern Scott Morrison fördömer demonstrationerna och tycker att eleverna borde hålla sig i skolorna:
– Vad vi vill ha är mer undervisning och mindre aktivism i skolorna. Vi stöttar inte att skolor förvandlas till parlament, säger Morrison.
– Jag och mina vänner fyller 18 snart, vi kommer att kunna rösta i nästa val och det är löjligt om han inte vill lyssna på oss, säger strejkande Canberra-studenten Clara McArthur, 17, om premiärministerns uttalande, till Sydney Morning Herald.
Eleverna kommer inte straffas
Andra backar ungdomarna. En talesperson för utbildningsdepartementet säger att eleverna inte kommer att stoppas eller straffas om de väljer att delta i demonstrationerna.
Adam Bandt, partiledare för de gröna, har träffat flera av studenterna och säger att han står bakom dem.
– Premiärministern står verkligen inte i kontakt med ungdomar, varken i Australien eller resten av världen. De här studenterna vill ha en ledare som försvarar deras framtid men de har fått ett domderande, ogeneröst och nedlåtande tillrättavisande från någon som är värre än Tony Abbott (Australiens tidigare premiärminister, reds. anm), säger
Bandt.
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LINKS
& REFERENCE
http://cnnphilippines.com/world/2018/12/17/greta-thunberg-cop24.html
https://www.aftonbladet.se/svenskahjaltar/a/BJP9P9/elever-i-australien-inspireras-av-svenska-greta
https://lifeandsoulmagazine.com/2018/09/03/young-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-protests-in-sweden-calling-on-politicians-to-take-climate-issues-seriously/
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