GRETA THUNBERG  

GRETA THUNBERG, a 15 year-old student from Sweden, captured the attention of the world recently when she shamed climate change negotiators at a United Nations climate summit in Poland. The teen has inspired thousands of young people around the world to walk out of their schools on Fridays to demand adults to take more action to protect their futures and those of future generation.

Greta Thunberg's speech to UN secretary general António Guterre:

For 25 years countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations climate conferences, asking our nation's leaders to stop the emissions. But, clearly, this has not worked since the emissions jus continue to rise.

So I will not ask them anything. 

Instead, I will ask the media to start treating the crisis as a crisis.

Instead, I will ask the people around the world to realize that our political leaders have failed us.

Because we are facing an existential threat and there is no time to continue down this road of madness.

Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions by at least 15% every year to reach the 2 degree warming target. You would think the media and everyone of our leaders would be talking about nothing else - but no one ever even mentions it.

Nor does hardly anyone ever talk about that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with up to 200 species going extinct every single day. How can we expect countries like India, Colombia or Nigeria to care about the climate crisis if we who already have everything, don't care even a second about our actual commitments to the Paris agreement? So when school started in August this year I sat myself down on the ground outside the Swedish parliament. I school striked for the climate

                                                                   SKOLSTREJK FÖR KLIMAT