06/12/2018
In Sweden, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg has been protesting inaction on climate change since August, going on strike from school every Friday to sit outside her country's parliament. Greta writes for the Guardian Australia about why she believes Australian students should join her: "The adults have failed us. And since most of them, including the press and the politicians, keep ignoring the situation, we must take action into our own hands, starting today."
full Guardian story: https://gu.com/p/a274h/au
Greta at Extinction Rebellion (Oct, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8prVarP-rQ
Excellent Sustainable Hour interview with Greta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3poPEkiEeqI
Greta's school strike speech (Swedish, English subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrGp56ViaJs
New Internationalist interview with Greta (English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmM9gmbx4tk
"In general Greta prefers action to conversation. In undertaking her school strike, she was inspired by the protests staged by American high-school students in response to the Parkland shooting this year—Thunberg’s sit-in is also a walkout." (from the New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-fifteen-year-old-climate-activist-who-is-demanding-a-new-kind-of-politics
On November 30th, thousands of Australian students left school to protest climate change inaction by their government. One of the organizers, Milou Albrecht, said she had been inspired by Greta's activism. See full story (NY Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/world/australia/student-strike-climate-change.html
