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Greta Thunberg: ‘The climate crisis is a social crisis’
www.bigissue.com/latest/environment/greta-thunberg-the-climate-crisis-is-a-social-crisis/
In an exclusive interview, figurehead of the environmental movement Greta Thunberg tells The Big Issue that despite the panic, the urgency and the scale of the crisis she remains positive
By Adrian Lobb@adey70
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg took a stand. One small act of defiance for a 15-year-old Swedish girl became one giant global leap forward for the movement for change. By one simple act of refusal – skipping school, refusing education, sitting in silence on the pavement outside the Swedish parliament with a homemade placard saying School Strike for the Climate – Thunberg sparked schoolchildren around the world into action.
She was joined by hundreds of thousands of young people taking their first steps into activism, no longer able to tolerate the failure of a generation of politicians to act fast enough in response to the climate crisis.
“It just spiralled out of control,” Thunberg says, speaking via Zoom to The Big Issue from her home in Stockholm, her pet dog making its presence felt nearby.
“In one way it feels like it was yesterday. But on the other hand, it feels like it was 10 years ago. It was just so strange that those kinds of things were happening and so hard to grasp. But I’m almost there now.”
I’ve always been a person who no one really listens to. I’ve always been very socially awkward
Since then, Thunberg has become one of the most famous people on the planet. Less than four months after her solo protest, she was addressing COP24, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, in Katowice, Poland, something she repeated the following year in Madrid. Of the 29,000 delegates, one was smaller, younger – but her voice carried the furthest. And it continues to reverberate around the world.
“It’s not something I’ve gotten used to,” says Thunberg, who turned 18 in January. “Because I’ve always been a person who doesn’t say anything and who no one really listens to. I’ve always been very socially awkward and so on. So to go from that, being almost invisible, to be someone who people actually listen to is a very big change. And it’s hard to adapt to.”
Thunberg is not protective of her platform. Instead, as she does in the new three-part BBC documentary series, she is keen to use it to foreground and amplify the voices of scientists warning us of the need to act decisively and act now.
www.bigissue.com/latest/environment/greta-thunberg-the-climate-crisis-is-a-social-crisis/
In an exclusive interview, figurehead of the environmental movement Greta Thunberg tells The Big Issue that despite the panic, the urgency and the scale of the crisis she remains positive
By Adrian Lobb@adey70
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg took a stand. One small act of defiance for a 15-year-old Swedish girl became one giant global leap forward for the movement for change. By one simple act of refusal – skipping school, refusing education, sitting in silence on the pavement outside the Swedish parliament with a homemade placard saying School Strike for the Climate – Thunberg sparked schoolchildren around the world into action.
She was joined by hundreds of thousands of young people taking their first steps into activism, no longer able to tolerate the failure of a generation of politicians to act fast enough in response to the climate crisis.
“It just spiralled out of control,” Thunberg says, speaking via Zoom to The Big Issue from her home in Stockholm, her pet dog making its presence felt nearby.
“In one way it feels like it was yesterday. But on the other hand, it feels like it was 10 years ago. It was just so strange that those kinds of things were happening and so hard to grasp. But I’m almost there now.”
I’ve always been a person who no one really listens to. I’ve always been very socially awkward
Since then, Thunberg has become one of the most famous people on the planet. Less than four months after her solo protest, she was addressing COP24, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, in Katowice, Poland, something she repeated the following year in Madrid. Of the 29,000 delegates, one was smaller, younger – but her voice carried the furthest. And it continues to reverberate around the world.
“It’s not something I’ve gotten used to,” says Thunberg, who turned 18 in January. “Because I’ve always been a person who doesn’t say anything and who no one really listens to. I’ve always been very socially awkward and so on. So to go from that, being almost invisible, to be someone who people actually listen to is a very big change. And it’s hard to adapt to.”
Thunberg is not protective of her platform. Instead, as she does in the new three-part BBC documentary series, she is keen to use it to foreground and amplify the voices of scientists warning us of the need to act decisively and act now.