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This is the biggest story in the world, and it must be spoken as far and wide as our voices can carry and much further still. Thank you for your support!
I will not earn money from this book as my copyright belongs to the Greta Thunberg Foundation, so all royalties go to charity.
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The real news here is that Denmark will apparently go on extracting fossil fuels for another 3 decades.
To us children, this is not the "good news" that some people seem to think.
We're in a climate emergency. Act accordingly.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"Oxfam examined 10 of the world’s worst climate hotspots, afflicted by drought, floods, severe storms and other extreme weather, and found their rates of extreme hunger had more than doubled in the past six years."
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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“It was this settler colonial worldview – of just accumulate, accumulate, accumulate, consume, consume, consume – that has got us where we are now.”
@GhoshAmitav on colonialism and the planetary emergency.
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Today I was guest editor in chief for Sweden’s largest newspaper @dagensnyheter (DN.se).
Here’s a 30 second summary.
The emperors are naked.
Every. Single. One.
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School strike week 188. Thousands of people showed up to the climate strike in Stockholm! #FridaysForFuture #PeopleNotProfit #ClimateStrike
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“What we found suggests that people need to hear the same accurate messages about climate change again and again. If they only hear it once, it recedes very quickly.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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School strike week 199. Today, @Malala , @olya_mrd , activists from @Fridays4future & @Riseupmovt came together in Stockholm at our weekly strike, to share and learn about the link between girls’ education and climate action and to stand in solidarity with all Afghan girls. 1/7
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“Any efforts to improve human health are doomed unless they address the critical interface between humans and animals, and the existential threat of climate change that's making our earth less habitable.” twitter.com/DrTedros/statu…
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Climate strike week 208. #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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”More than 30 people have died in the Indian city of Mumbai after an intense burst of rainfall caused a landslide and wall collapse, as changing monsoon patterns due to climate change lead to more extreme rains across India.”
theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
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School strike week 132.
#climatestrikeonline
#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate #FaceTheClimateEmergency
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"Global coal demand is set for with a 4.5% increase this year, pushing beyond 2019 levels."
So much for "building back better" and a "green recovery"... We are still speeding in the wrong direction. #MindTheGap #BlahBlahBlah #UprootTheSystem reuters.com/business/energ…
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School strike week 166. Global climate strike in Stockholm!
#UprootTheSystem #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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The fact that this aspect doesn’t even exist in the debate when we talk about vaccination and “going back to normal” says it all...
This is truly shameful. twitter.com/nytimes/status…
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”Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Well, I don’t know about you but I don’t consider ”climate targets” putting us on track for 2,4°C and current policies indicating we’re headed for 2,9°C (excluding most tipping points, feedback-loops etc) to be ”good”.
#MindTheGap
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School strike week 189. We recently received an irresistible offer from fossil fuel lobbyists, so we have now changed our narrative. It is snowing today in Stockholm, therefore climate change must be a hoax guys!
We want #ProfitNotPeople !
#FridaysAgainstFuture
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I’m excited to announce that today I will be on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury 5.15pm. See you there! @glastonbury
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Climate strike week 243. Today I’m striking outside Sweden’s Representation in the EU, in Brussels. My home country Sweden currently holds the presidency of the Council of the EU. Next week ministers will gather in Sweden to discuss forestry, among other things. Thread🧵
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If you needed more solid proof that the climate- and ecological crisis can not be solved within today's systems, well here you go. twitter.com/FridayForFutur…
Autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm