April 14, 2020
Her movement caught people’s attention and has grown to a worldwide action network that combines young school children and their parents and grand parents. Greta began informing her own community and asking them to take a stance and to act when most were not aware yet about climate change.4 Thunberg continued her advocacy and while she tries to avoid traveling, she now has people all over the world sharing her same values. Thunberg started to think bigger, she informed herself of what countries were polluting the most. Thunberg learned that Argentina, Brazil, France, Turkey, and Germany were some of the major contributors of carbon and greenhouse gas pollution in the world. So, she began a lawsuit against these five countries which claims that carbon-polluting countries are violating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 5 She travels by land and oceans, instead of by airplanes that produce the highest levels of greenhouse gases. During these trips, she gives interviews to well known shows where she explains more of her concerns and why she began this movement. In one of the shows she mentioned that she began this movement with the thought of “even if I can’t make that big of a difference in this issue, I could look at myself in the mirror and know I did something.”6 Thunberg never forgets to express her frustrations about how the people in charge, are leaving her generation with the mess they created and that they continue to worsen. She is saddened about the amounts of forests that are being destroyed and animals are going extinct because of human activity.
Greta Thunberg continues her fight for progress, pushes for small actions to be implemented by the current leaders around the world. People hear her warnings and her call to action and discuss what a great impact she has been making in just under two years of activism. At only seventeen years old, Greta Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for 2020.11 She was also chosen as the person of the year 2019 by TIME’s Magazine 12 Thunberg gives tips on how to become more Eco-friendly giving us the chance to take action. While she has stopped flying to minimize green gas emissions, other solutions are more practical, she has become vegan, she has adopted the shop-stop philosophy (which is not buying anything unless you absolutely have to), but most importantly she continues communicating the importance of slowing climate change to people in power. Sometimes life gets in the way or we have other responsibilities that do not allow us to be as involved in movements we support. However, is it responsible to dismiss the very real impacts of global warming because these are merely inconveniences in our lives while climate change severely impacts millions around the world? We must start making small adjustments to our daily lives, if we are to hope for a better future.
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Aaron Sandoval
This article was well done and covered possibly one of the most influential youth in our generation. While there are many people who will either argue in support or against Greta Thunberg it is difficult to disagree with the fact that she has brought attention to the issue of climate change. She has had the courage to step up on the world stage and has made her voice heard, and while the topic of climate change is not easy, simple actions such as making your voice heard in a world where many choose to disagree with the data is a big step.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Brandon Torres
I love that throughout this article, the author never speaks of Greta Thunberg as a typical student who simply got motivated to fix a problem. The author constantly refers to her as an activist ever since she was educated by her knowledge of the effect of greenhouse gasses. Along with the author’s great descriptions of her, the mentions of her continuous support for such progress is what really makes this article shine!
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Destiny Lucero
Greta Thunberg is an inspirational born leader. She has accomplished so many fears at such a young age and has a huge platform of followers all around the world. She took on a lawsuit against 5 whole countries. One young girl against 5 COUNTRIES is so brave. She not only get information out there, she practices what she preaches which represents her strong advocacy toward her beliefs. I agree completely with this article when the author states that she uses her anger in a passionate way to have a positive impact on the world. Trump responded immaturely… this is a teenage girl who is a force to be reckoned with and she is acting more grown up then most of her elders.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Mia Hernandez
This was a very good and interesting article to read. I had first heard about Greta Thunberg through an instagram story that had been taking place at a climate change summit this past year. For someone of such a relatively young age, I find it remarkable that she has such a passion to save the planet and has become an amazing advocate for this cause. I hope that others take what she has been saying and speaking out about seriously as this is a very pertinent issue for us as Earths inhabitants.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Juliana Montoya
I have heard many things about Greta but I never knew how she started her interest in climate change. I found it fascinating how she was so interested in the topic at such a young age and the amazing impact she’s had on the world. There are so many aspects of her campaign that inspire many people of many ages.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Eliane Castorena
Great article! I had previous knowledge about Greta Thunberg and climate change, since I recently presented a Real Talk on campus focused on informing the community about climate change and how we, like Greta Thunberg, can make a difference by doing our part. Greta is really an inspiration for all of us that are fighting to slow global warming and to make a change in our world. It is truly disappointing to know that our president, instead of supporting her, radicalizes her and her frustrations towards the big powerful companies that are not doing anything about this crisis.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm
Davis Nickle
Greta Thunberg is has been a hotly discussed topic for the past few months and I am glad that you wrote this article to make certain that the facts about her are as clear as possible. No matter what you may think of her you have to respect that she was able to get people talking about global warming and was able to get the globes attention at all. For someone her age that is very impressive.
26/04/2020
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Keily Hart
It is beautiful to see someone who is younger than myself make such a drastic impact on such a large scale. People who are young are always looked at as if their ideas and beliefs are automatically invalid because they have not reached some arbitrary age that forces the adults in the room to listen. It is so frustrating that these people would assume that simply because someone is young they do not understand, as if they do not have near unlimited access to a plethora of information on every topic imaginable in the palm of their hand nearly all the time.
19/08/2020
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Yazmin Garcia
Greta Thunberg is definitely a household name at this point in her activist career. She is so involved in the movement to bring awareness to Global Warming, which is inspiring for someone her age. I admire her passion and she is a great role model, many of the students that I tutor look up to her and with good reason. However, I wouldn’t say that “she created the revolution” as there have also been many great advocates in the past before her such as Al Gore.
26/04/2020
12:13 pm