{"id":1055,"date":"2019-11-13T08:43:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2019-11-13T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T13:43:28","slug":"greta-thunberg-making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2019-2020\/greta-thunberg-making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg: Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

16-Year-Old Activist Takes On Authorities on Climate Change<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Alexandra McArver and Rain Camerlinck<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist, is one of the biggest voices in global climate change today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past year and a half, Thunberg has gone from sitting outside the Swedish Parliament advocating for action to making speeches to world leaders and heading nation-wide protests. On March 15, at least 100 countries participated in the youth-led climate strike inspired by Thunberg. Her message to \u201ctell it like it is\u201d won her an invitation to speak at the United Nations (UN).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 23, Thunberg gave a speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. She addressed world leaders by starting her speech with \u201cthis is all wrong, I shouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She went on to blame the world leaders of betraying young people.\u00a0 \u201cIf world leaders continue to fail us, my generation will never forgive them,\u201d said Thunberg.\u00a0 The purpose of her speech at the UN was to convince politicians to take climate change seriously. \u201cHow dare you!\u201d Thunberg said many times in her speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to travel from Sweden to New York, Thunberg traveled in a zero-carbon yacht called Malizia II that harnessed the wind, sun, and hydropower to move. While on her trip, Thunberg kept her Twitter updated to inform her supporters when she was going to arrive. When she arrived, she was greeted by a huge crowd, most of them younger activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thunberg\u2019s docking was purposeful as well. She docked her zero-emissions yacht just blocks from Wall Street, the heart of the global financial system whose investments in fossil fuels are one of the main targets of climate protesters and an area that climate change threatens with rising sea levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thunberg has contributed to and written two books. Her first book, Scenes from the Heart<\/em> is an autobiography of Thunberg\u2019s mother, Malena Erman. The book follows Erman\u2019s life as she,\u00a0 her husband, and their two daughters, including Thunberg, toured Europe for Ermans\u2019s opera singing career. The book addresses the diagnosis of Thunberg\u2019s Asperger\u2019s syndrome and her sister\u2019s attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second book Thunberg contributed to is called No One is Too Small to Make a Difference<\/em>. This book consists of 11 of Thunberg\u2019s key speeches. The first speech in One is Too Small to Make a Difference<\/em> was given three weeks after her first climate strike in 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option,\u201d said Thunberg to Congress in September 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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