I remember posting:
On Friday, November 2, 2018, a youth in Sudbury, Ontario was the first youth
in the Western Hemisphere to join Greta’s #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike.
I wanted Greta’s and Sophia’s actions to have meaning. But I didn’t have a lot of confidence in North America. I wondered if we’d hear their names again.
Last year, the first I knew of Greta Thunberg and Sophia, an 11 year-old who set off the action in Canada:
Seven months later – – hard to believe.
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The First Time with Greta Thunberg (Rolling Stone, March 6, 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8g0zmDvxRw
2:50 minutes
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School Strikes Special – – March 15, 2019 (worth a scroll through – pictures)
https://act.350.org/mailings/view/67422?t=1&akid=67422%2E390946%2EbDipVu
Today is an historic day. As I write, 100,000s of children and students have already walked out of school to strike for the climate. And their global call to action is only just beginning — with incredible images and video from Australia, the Pacific, Asia, Europe and Africa already flowing in. . . .
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The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg (TedTalk, Feb 13, 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QxFM9y0tY
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Greta is on the Asperger’s Spectrum. In various communications she explains how the characteristics of Asperger’s have contributed to her ability to do what she’s done/does. In one exchange, other students who are Asperger’s step forward. It’s heart-warming to see what happens when they “come out of the closet” and connect.
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The Davos Video, 2.53 minutes
At places like Davos people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. . . .
I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is.
Greta Thunberg, a Swedish climate activist, has told world leaders: ‘I don’t want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day and then I want you to act.’ In an impassioned warning to act now on climate change, Thunberg told her audience at Davos: ‘Either we choose to go on as a civilisation or we don’t’
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A call for mass, global resistance on September 20, 2019.
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ASIDE (scroll down for the last items re Greta Thunberg)
I dropped the ball.
Three women single file on bikes
The first called out
Two shouted “louder”
I heard
Can’t believe
It’s all gone
Huge area
They cut them all down
Bull-dozed, bombed
Nature’s limbs and meat
Strewn and heaped
Big trees dead.
“Where?” got trapped in my mind
Tongue stopped
Muscles of the intuitive atrophied
Survival skills dulled
Reconnect, someone knows “where”?
Carbon sinks
The trees have to stay
Act like the house is on fire
Because it is
Homes to species
The trees have to stay
At places like Davos people like to tell success stories
But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag.
CTV Mother bear, two cubs destroyed
after attack in Powell River
Worst bear year because the berry crop dried up
Don’t say it was bulldozed
Cougar complaints are up across Vancouver Island
More of the animals are being shot dead. Starving
Don’t say people like to tell success stories
But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag
Greta Thunberg and the children whisper
Pick up the ball Sandra
Re-activate survival skills
The trees have to stay
Act like the house is on fire
Because it is
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Greta Thunberg in the European Parliament committee on environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyw4Wo6Kng
1:00:33 Streamed live on Apr 16, 2019. (Skip the first getting organized part.)
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SMALL-TOWN B.C.
From: Sheri
Sent: May 29, 2019
Subject: great video . . .Students, “GLOBAL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE, May 24 2019, Parksville B.C.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiD04TRwebQ
(INSERT: The local News article by a student leader was very good. Sorry I can’t copy it.)
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Great, unbelievable, international momentum from a small beginning by Greta Thunberg.