'Why is it so important to stay below 1.5 degreesC? Because even at 1 degreesC, people are dying from climate change ... because that is what the united science calls for and so we have the best ...possible chance to avoid setting off irreversible chain reactions. Every fraction of a degree matters.
Mobilisations against climate change continue to build, gaining new social layers beyond the initial circles of environmental activists and tending towards a systemic critique of capitalist ...productivism with its underlying competition for profit. Particularly significant is that young people are joining the struggle.
The inspiring, global student-led climate strike protests on May 24, initiated by high school students, took place in an incredible 1594 cities and towns across more than 118 countries.
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the Environment Committee in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on April 16, calling for "cathedral thinking" on climate action - a ...reference to the huge and immediate mobilisation of empathy, panic and money at the sight of the Notre Dame in flames. The real panic, she said, should be about the "house on fire" - the planet - leading to a mobilisation of funds, emergency emissions reductions and state-led direction of the transition.
I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she marched in New York: "I never would have predicted that this was going to happen ..."
The vast majority, if not all, of the things that Greta Thunberg says are delivered with precise accuracy; however, one of the 16-year-old Swedish high school climate activist's latest statements has ...perfectly encapsulated the wider School Strike 4 Climate (SS 4C) movement.
It is absolutely crazy that things have gone so far that children feel like they must sacrifice their education to compensate for the inaction of our leaders and most adults.
