BY STEPHANIE OSMANSKI
Dr Judith Curry climatologist:
‘The climate is going to change independent of what we do with emissions’ –
‘Thinking that we can control the climate is misguided hubris’
The In-depth Story Behind a Climate Fraud – Bing video
However, Al Gore’s with An.Inconvenient.Truth.2006 – Bing video
and Al Gore’s new Inconvenient Truth sequel is a strange artifact of a post-truth year.
with Gore trying to make millions + Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg – and now millions of young people around the world have joined demonstrations against climate change.
She was 15 years old at the time and skipped school to protest outside the Swedish parliament, calling on world leaders to do more to help the environment.
She chose to miss classes every Friday and asked other young people around the world to do the same. This evolved into a massive campaign movement called ‘Fridays for Future‘.
Over the last year it’s grown, with millions of students in countries all over the planet inspired by Greta to take action and walk out of school.
And it’s not just been a big year for her campaign, it’s been a big year for her too.
Greta has made some high-profile speeches about the issues of climate change.
In March she became one of youngest people ever to have been nominated
for a Nobel Peace Prize.
In April Greta met with UK leaders and also told the EU to forget Brexit and
focus on climate change instead!
She also joined with the campaign group Extinction Rebellion in London,
encouraging protesters to continue their fight to stop climate change.
In May she was named as one of the world’s most influential people by Time magazine.
Afterwards, she posted on social media saying “Now I am speaking to the whole world”.
In June the human rights group Amnesty International presented her with the ‘Ambassador of Conscience’ award for 2019.
In July Greta even made her music debut by recording an essay on climate change for The 1975’s new album, as well as getting the first ever “Freedom Prize” from France’s Normandy region for her role in the climate movement.
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg is halfway through her boat journey to the US – CBBC Newsround
In August Greta set sail from Britain on a two-week boat journey to the US to take part
in two climate change summits there. She’s also been named ‘Game Changer of The Year’
at GQ Men of The Year Awards 2019, also appearing on the front cover of the magazine’s
October edition.
If she can achieve all that in one year, we can’t wait to see what she does next!
Climate activism found an unlikely poster child in Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg
when in 2018, the high school teen organized a school climate strike movement called
Fridays for Future, in the name of environmental reform.
Since then, Thunberg rose to international fame and
recognition as the face of climate action and environmentalism.
Now, Greta is 18 years old with several admirable honors under her belt: she’s won
the title of Time’s 100 Most Influential People (the youngest ever), and was nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, 2020, and 2021. That said, many are wondering if Thunberg dropped out of school in order to pursue her environmental activism —
keep reading to find out.
Did Greta Thunberg drop out of school?
At 15 years old, Thunberg started spending her school hours protesting outside of the Swedish Parliament with the support of her like-minded environmentalist parents.
She was known for holding a sign that read Skolstrejk för klimatet – which translates
to “School strike for climate” in Swedish, according to Business Insider.
Her calls on the Swedish Parliament for more aggressive action to address
the climate crisis eventually led her to start Fridays for Future and ultimately,
resort to remote studies.
In 2019, Thunberg took a sabbatical year from school so she could (sustainably) travel the world to spread her message (she sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a yacht outfitted in solar panels and underwater turbines.) Later that year, Thunberg gave a powerful address at the UN Climate Action Summit in which she said, “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you! ”
Before taking a sabbatical year – during which she completed remote studies –
Thunberg attended a private school called Franska Skolan in Stockholm.
She was a student there from 2010 to 2018 before transferring to Kringlaskolan in Södertälje. In 2019, it was made public that Thunberg had completed ninth grade.
During the coronavirus global pandemic, Thunberg paused her travels in favor of virtual activism. This allowed her to end her gap year from school and in August 2020, Thunberg announced on Twitter that she was returning to school for the fall semester. Thunberg wrote, “My gap year from school is over, and it feels so great to finally be back in school again!” It was reported that her return to school was through online classes like most other students during the global health crisis.
Despite returning to school in August 2020, Thunberg has continued her virtual
activism via Zoom calls and also has continued to host Fridays for Future school strikes. As of March 19, 2021, Thunberg celebrated Week 135 of the school strike and captioned a photo of her and other activists striking while wearing masks, “We’re striking in shifts to avoid big crowds and keep our numbers as low as possible.”
In a recent interview with PEOPLE, she added, “My hope for 2021 is that we see an awakening when it comes to the climate and environment, [and] that we start to treat this crisis like the crisis it is and understand what needs to be done – understand that we have failed and that we need to take real bold action right now, that we cannot afford to wait any longer.”
Greta Thunberg Proves She’s a Force in New Documentary ‘I Am Greta’
The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this documentary following her rise to prominence and her global impact as she sparks school strikes and protests around the world.
To musically accompany Greta and the children of the ‘Fridays for Future’ movement on their journey, composer duo Rebekka Karijord and Jon Ekstrand spent quite a lot of time searching for right balance when it comes to how much emotional triggers the music should offer:
“With the music for ‘I Am Greta’ we aimed to find a sonic counterpoint to the friction between the shy, contemplative inner world of Greta, and the unbounded energy of the natural world and climate change movement. From the start we found it useful to separate the score into three distinct voices: Greta’s voice, the voice of the natural world, and the voice of the climate change movement.”
The synergy between the two composers with very different backgrounds as well as the blend of classical instrumentation and usage of electroacoustic elements led to a unique, compelling score.
”Rebekka and Jon’s dynamic score to ‘I Am Greta’ is huge and intimate,
uplifting and melancholic, and manages to carry the emotional nuances of Greta’s story. The score forms a musical parallel to Greta’s journey and narrative voice throughout the film. Its energy, urgency and emotional depth reminds us that the time for climate action is now.” – Nathan Grossman, director of ‘I Am Greta.’
WATCH FULL DOCUMENTARY HERE: Watch I Am Greta 2020 HD online (movies joy.to)
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