Teen and 20-something activists like Thunberg and Prakash have led some of the most relevant and incisive climate protests in modern history. Their willingness to back Biden and lend their expertise in helping his campaign address the increasingly dire heat of climate change head-on speaks volumes a…
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When facts fail to convince, storytelling may do the trick.
Having no hope is just as useless as being a climate change denier.
Skiing is the quintessential winter pastime. But recently, the multi-billion dollar industry is in decline. The number of skiers is falling fast and the industry is scrambling to make up the difference. Is this going to be the end of the ski resort?
While experts have recently gone back and forth over the health benefits of eating meat, there is no doubt that plant-rich diets have less negative impact on the earth’s resources.
Many Australians are furious with their government’s resistance to acknowledge the role of climate change in the brushfires, which experts say are now burning hotter, longer, and more ferociously due to rising global temperatures.
Four years ago when I was here and talked about raising the minimum wage, it was a radical idea. Since then, seven states and the Congress have done it. Four years ago when we talked about climate change being an existential threat to the planet, again, that was deemed to be pretty outside the box.…
Look, there are so many terribly important issues that this country faces, whether it’s healthcare, education, criminal justice, immigration, whatever it may be, but I don’t know how you not talk about whether or not the planet we’re leaving to our kids and our grandchildren will be a healthy and ha…
In here, she speaks quietly. Out there, the entire natural world seems to amplify her small voice, screaming along with her.
— Justin Worland, Suyin Haynes, Charlotte Alter, Time Magazine, time.com
We’re not afraid to admit that we’re part of the problem.
Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you 'solve' the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you 'solve' a war? How do you 'solve' going to the moon for the first time? How do you 'solve' inventing new i…
You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected th…
At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilization, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how…
I tried to make the others in the group join me...but no one was really interested. So then I decided I was going to do it alone. And even if no one was joining me, I was going to do it.
Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope.’ But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.
Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized soc…
The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosyste…
During the last six months I have travelled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.
Just unite behind the science. I’m not the one who’s saying these things. I’m not the one who we should be listening to. And I say that all the time. I say we need to listen to the scientists.
I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big; I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and…