Greta Thunberg

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg  · 14 Feb 2023  · 651pp  · 162,060 words

that global warming will reach 3.2°C by 2100. PENGUIN PRESS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC penguinrandomhouse.com Compilation copyright © 2022 by Greta Thunberg Essays copyright © 2022 by the individual authors Penguin Random House supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant

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of this copyright page. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Thunberg, Greta, 2003– compiler. Title: The climate book : the facts and the solutions / Greta Thunberg. Description: New York : Penguin Press, 2023. | “First published by Allen Lane, 2022”— Title page verso. Identifiers: LCCN 2022049218 (print) | LCCN 2022049219 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593492307 (hardcover

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Cora Wigen pid_prh_6.0_142488116_c0_r0 PART ONE / How Climate Works 1.1 ‘To solve this problem, we need to understand it’ / Greta Thunberg 1.2 The Deep History of Carbon Dioxide Peter Brannen / Science journalist, contributing writer at the Atlantic and author of The Ends of the World

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and the author, most recently, of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future. 1.5 ‘The science is as solid as it gets’ / Greta Thunberg 1.6 The Discovery of Climate Change Michael Oppenheimer / Atmospheric scientist, Princeton University’s Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and long-time IPCC author

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Impact Research and Professor at Potsdam University. 1.9 ‘This is the biggest story in the world’ / Greta Thunberg PART TWO / How Our Planet Is Changing 2.1 ‘The weather seems to be on steroids’ / Greta Thunberg 2.2 Heat Katharine Hayhoe / Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University and author of

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Climate Science at the Grantham Instituteat Imperial College London and co-lead of World Weather Attribution. 2.8 ‘The snowball has been set in motion’ / Greta Thunberg 2.9 Droughts and Floods Kate Marvel / Climate scientist at the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space

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and president-emeritus of the Pacific Institute, member US National Academy of Sciences, hydroclimatologist. 2.15 ‘It is much closer to home than we think’ / Greta Thunberg 2.16 Wildfires Joëlle Gergis / Senior lecturer in Climate Science at the Australian NationalUniversity and lead author on the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. 2.17

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lead author and science communicator specializing in uncertainties in sea-level rise. PART THREE / How It Affects Us 3.1 ‘The world has a fever’ / Greta Thunberg 3.2 Health and Climate Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus / Director-general of theWorld Health Organization. 3.3 Heat and Illness Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera / Environmental epidemiologist

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/ Principal research scientist, Harvard T. H. Chan School ofPublic Health and Director, Planetary Health Alliance. 3.8 ‘We are not all in the same boat’ / Greta Thunberg 3.9 Life at 1.1°C Saleemul Huq / Director of the International Centre for Climate Changeand Development at the Independent University, Bangladesh. 3.10

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Forest Sônia Guajajara / Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist and politician, and coordinator of the Association of Indigenous People of Brazil. 3.16 ‘Enormous challenges are waiting’ / Greta Thunberg 3.17 Warming and Inequality Solomon Hsiang / Scientist and economist, Professor and Director of the Global Policy Laboratory at UC Berkeley; co-founder of the

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FOUR / What We’ve Done About It 4.1 ‘How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed?’ / Greta Thunberg 4.2 The New Denialism Kevin Anderson / Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen. 4.3 The Truth

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at the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter and co-author of Gretas resa (Greta’s Journey). 4.4 ‘We are not moving in the right direction’ / Greta Thunberg 4.5 The Persistence of Fossil Fuels Bill McKibben / Founder of the environmental organizations 350.org and Third Act and author of more than a

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.9 Drawdown Technologies Rob Jackson / Earth scientist at Stanford University and Chair of the Global Carbon Project. 4.10 ‘A whole new way of thinking’ / Greta Thunberg 4.11 Our Imprint on the Land Alexander Popp / Senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate ImpactResearch and leader of a research group on

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Centre and Associate Professor at University of Oxford. Author of Personal Travel and Climate Change. 4.18 ‘They keep saying one thing while doing another’ / Greta Thunberg 4.19 The Cost of Consumerism Annie Lowrey / Staff writer at the Atlantic, covering economic policy, and author of Give People Money. 4.20 How

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.22 The Myth of Recycling Nina Schrank / Senior campaigner for the Plastics Team at Greenpeace UK. 4.23 ‘This is where we draw the line’ / Greta Thunberg 4.24 Emissions and Growth Nicholas Stern / Professor of Economics and Government; Chair of the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Jnanpith Award. PART FIVE / What We Must Do Now 5.1 ‘The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves’ / Greta Thunberg 5.2 Individual Action, Social Transformation Stuart Capstick / An environmental social scientist based at Cardiff University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Climate Change

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Executive of Rewilding Britain and has worked in conservation and community development for thirty years. 5.8 ‘We now have to do the seemingly impossible’ / Greta Thunberg 5.9 Practical Utopias Margaret Atwood / Booker Prize–winning author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. 5.10 People Power

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Pandemic David Wallace-Wells / New York Times Opinion writer and magazine columnist.Author of The Uninhabitable Earth. 5.15 ‘Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice’ / Greta Thunberg 5.16 A Just Transition Naomi Klein / Journalist and bestselling author; UBC Professor of Climate Justice and Co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice

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Teacher of Environmental Biology, founder and Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. 5.22 ‘Hope is something you have to earn’ / Greta Thunberg What Next? Index Illustration Credits A Note on the Cover Ed Hawkins / Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading. The contributors have assembled thousands

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_ PART ONE / How Climate Works ‘Listen to the science. Before it’s too late’ 1.1 To solve this problem, we need to understand it Greta Thunberg The climate and ecological crisis is the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. It will no doubt be the issue that will define and

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living structure on Earth, providing a habitat for nearly 9,000 species of marine life. 1.5 The science is as solid as it gets Greta Thunberg The remarkable climatological stability of the Holocene era enabled our species – Homo sapiens – to make the move from being hunter gatherers to being farmers who

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and their children a planet that will continue drifting towards less and less inhabitable states. 1.9 This is the biggest story in the world Greta Thunberg There are currently about 7.9 billion of us living on this beautiful blue planet, peacefully circling around its sun in our tiny little corner

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north-west Greenland in June 2019, during an expedition to monitor sea ice and ocean conditions. 2.1 The weather seems to be on steroids Greta Thunberg ‘This is the new normal’ is a phrase we often hear when the rapid changes in our daily weather patterns – wildfires, hurricanes, heatwaves, floods, storms

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river was struck by a storm surge from Cyclone Nargis which killed over 100,000 people. 2.8 The snowball has been set in motion Greta Thunberg Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t sound that bad. The word ‘change’ resonates quite pleasantly in our

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will help us address these inequities and move to a more sustainable water future. / 2.15 It is much closer to home than we think Greta Thunberg Environment ministers from almost 200 nations agreed late tonight to adopt a new United Nations strategy that aims to stem the worst loss of life

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a record 1.74 million hectares in the state, more than 4 per cent of its total area. 3.1 The world has a fever Greta Thunberg The world has a fever. And a fever is usually a symptom of something else, like an infection, a disease or a virus. The climate

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-east India, encroaches on a mangrove forest, revealing the deterioration of this critical coastal ecosystem. 3.8 We are not all in the same boat Greta Thunberg Our rapidly disappearing carbon budgets should be seen for exactly what they are: a limited natural resource that belongs equally to all living things and

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, geographer and environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim leads a group of pastoralists in Chad, advocating for ancestral agroecological practices. 3.16 Enormous challenges are waiting Greta Thunberg ‘With current warming trends, 1.2 billion people could be forced to migrate by 2050,’ writes Taikan Oki in his chapter. This is another one

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huge swathes of this richly biodiverse area. 4.1 How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed? Greta Thunberg Saving the world is voluntary. You could certainly argue against that statement from a moral point of view, but the fact remains: there are no

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constituency of the willing and the concerned. / 4.3 The Truth about Government Climate Targets Alexandra Urisman Otto When I wrote my first article about Greta Thunberg, I didn’t have a clue. It was a long interview in my newspaper’s weekend magazine in the autumn of 2018, and for most

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all, I felt grateful that the issue was on somebody else’s desk, that it wasn’t my job to report on it. But when Greta Thunberg’s journey gained speed, my colleague Roger Turesson and I were invited to follow it. Journalistically, it was impossible to refuse; her story was surreal

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11.3 million tonnes of steel in 2019 – almost double the UK’s entire output. 4.4 We are not moving in the right direction Greta Thunberg In the autumn of 2021, the world’s biggest direct-air carbon removal plant opened in Iceland. If all goes according to plan and the

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of climate inaction roll by like floats in a parade. When will the victory parade finally begin? / 4.10 A whole new way of thinking Greta Thunberg ‘The American way of life is not up for negotiation. Period.’ These are the words of US President George H. W. Bush ahead of the

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Asia’s first fully automated container terminal in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, in January 2022. 4.18 They keep saying one thing while doing another Greta Thunberg The first step in solving a crisis is not evaluating the full situation or taking immediate action. That comes later. The first step in solving

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originated in over sixty countries, artist Alejandro Durán documents a ‘new form of colonization by consumerism’. 4.23 This is where we draw the line Greta Thunberg * * * • • • This is page 301. Make a note of it. Fold over the corner or add a bookmark to your audiobook device. This book contains some

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creation of British Columbia’s first Tribal Park, pictured. 5.1 The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves Greta Thunberg The answer to the question of whether we should be focusing on individual or systemic change is: yes, definitely. We cannot have one without the

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on Earth: a meadow of Neptune seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) in the Mediterranean Sea near Ibiza. 5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible Greta Thunberg The fact that our societies are in many ways governed by social norms is a great source of hope, because social norms can be changed

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mistakes again. / Young protesters marching during a Fridays for Future demonstration in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September 2019. 5.15 Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice Greta Thunberg These were not just the regular Andersson, Petersson or Johansson with a double ‘s’. These were all real Swedish names: Karlberg, Rönnkvist, Nordgren. But this

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, for my grandchildren and for the grandchildren of orioles. Listen. How does love call to you? / 5.22 Hope is something you have to earn Greta Thunberg Right now, we are in desperate need of hope. But hope is not about pretending that everything will be fine. It is not about sticking

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is immune from the effects of climate change. Similar images for almost every country can be downloaded for free from showyourstripes.info. About the Author Greta Thunberg was born in 2003. In August 2018, she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it,” said student climate activist Greta Thunberg, in 2019. “I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.”20 2. Resilience Rising In early 2019, newly elected twenty

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central Africa, vast stretches of savanna are going up in flame. Arctic regions in Siberia are burning at a historic pace.”7 One month later, Greta Thunberg and other student climate activists sued Brazil for not doing enough to stop climate change. “Brazil’s rollbacks are already starting to have a damaging

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the size of Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Denmark combined grew back in Europe between 1995 and 2015.25 And the amount of forests in Sweden, Greta Thunberg’s home nation, has doubled during the last century.26 Roughly 40 percent of the planet has seen “greening”—the production of more forest and

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to increased risks of diabetes, heart diseases and some cancers.”10 In response to the science linking meat to climate change, some climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, have sworn off meat, and have persuaded their parents to become vegetarian and even vegan. By reducing meat consumption, ending industrial agriculture, and committing ourselves

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-Cortez said in early 2019 that “the plan is to transition off of nuclear . . . as soon as possible.”39 A few weeks later, environmental activist Greta Thunberg wrote on Facebook that nuclear is “extremely dangerous, expensive, and time-consuming,”40 even though, as we have seen, the best-available science shows the

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change.10 2. Not as We Do Such hypocrisy understandably upsets many climate activists. “Name a single celebrity who’s standing up for the climate!” Greta Thunberg demanded of her mother in 2016. “Name a single celebrity who is prepared to sacrifice the luxury of flying around the world!”11 But sacrificing

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growth created Sweden’s wealth, including that of Thunberg’s own family. It is fair to say that without economic growth, the person who is Greta Thunberg would not exist. In 2016, I traveled to India to give a talk, I arrived early to see some of the country. I interviewed people

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the bear the previous July. The video has been viewed at least 2.5 billion times.1 One of the viewers was student climate activist Greta Thunberg. “I remember when I was younger and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears, and so on

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dealing with climate change. In 2019, my colleagues and I organized pronuclear demonstrations in more than thirty cities around the world. We were inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Student Strike for the Climate, which started with just one or two people, like herself, in many places. We asked people to take the

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. For more details, see Jordan Weissman, “Why the Green New Deal Rollout Was Kind of a Mess,” Slate, February 8, 2019, https://slate.com. 40. Greta Thunberg, “On Friday March 15th 2019 well over 1,5 million students school striked for the climate in 2083 places in 125 countries on all continents

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: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006), 286. 11. Malena Ernman, “Malena Ernman on daughter Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness,’ ” The Guardian, February 23, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com. 12. Agence-France Presse, “CO2 Row over

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Maurin, “Thunbergs Segelreise in die USA Gretas Törn schädlicher als Flug,” Taz, August 15, 2019, https://taz.de/Thunbergs-Segelreise-in-die-USA/!5615733. 124. Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (New York: Penguin, 2019), 96–99. 125. Ben Geman, “Obama: Power Africa Energy Plan a ‘Win

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Lost Souls 1. Cristina Mittermeier, “Starving-Polar-Bear Photographer Recalls What Went Wrong,” National Geographic, July 26, 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com. 2. Jonathan Watts, “Greta Thunberg, Schoolgirl Climate Change Warrior: Some People Can Let Things Go. I Can’t,” The Guardian, March 11, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com. 3. Erica Goode

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,” Environment and Behavior 32, no. 4 (2000): 576–91, https://doi.org/10.1177/00139160021972676. 53. Oliver Milman and David Smith, “ ‘Listen to the Scientists’: Greta Thunberg Urges Congress to Take Action,” The Guardian, September 18, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com. 54. Robert H. Nelson, The New Holy Wars (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State

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Death (New York: Free Press, 1973). 63. Ibid., 5. 64. Zion Lights (Extinction Rebellion spokesperson), email correspondence with the author, January 4, 2020. Leslie Hook, “Greta Thunberg: ‘All My Life I’ve Been the Invisible Girl,’ ” Financial Times, February 22, 2019, https://www.ft.com. Sarah Lunnon (Extinction Rebellion spokesperson) in discussion

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, https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/10/07/the-madness-of-extinction-rebellion. 72. Greta Thunberg, “ ‘Our House Is on Fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 25, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com. 73. Greta Thunberg, “If standing up against the climate and ecological breakdown and for humanity is against

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, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArO_-xH5Vm8. 80. Ibid. 81. Lauren Jeffrey (British YouTuber) in discussion with the author, December 3, 2019. 82. Greta Thunberg, “School Strike for Climate—Save the World by Changing the Rules,” TEDxStockholm, January 27, 2019, https://www.ted.com. Malena Ernman, “Malena Ernman on daughter

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Greta Thunberg: ‘She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness,’ ” The Guardian, February 23, 2020. 83. Scruton, Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, 277, 283. 84. Ibid., 288.

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

these past few years, as they start to demand more urgent climate action. Inspired to a large degree by peers such as Swedish school student Greta Thunberg, hundreds of thousands of climate activists have been hitting the streets, giving speeches to whomever would listen and changing their own habits where possible. We

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understand their concerns and for this reason invited Greta Thunberg to speak at our Annual Meeting in 2019. Thunberg's foremost message was that “our house is on fire”86 and that we should act

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protestors of the Youth for Climate movement advocated for much stronger action on climate by governments and lawmakers. The most prominent among them, the Swedish Greta Thunberg, was even invited to make her case in the French Parliament. But on the other hand, Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, hit the streets of

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political movements in their present form have done so. And the media has failed to create broad public awareness.1 These were the words from Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike

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the loss of biodiversity, the decline in natural resources, and various forms of pollution, can be reversed as well. But as young activities such as Greta Thunberg warn, we do need to accelerate action. Take the most pressing issue, climate change. Slowing, let alone stopping, it is a challenge that can only

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vast majority of other companies can, as well. In this regard, we must remain optimistic. It is an area where we share the analysis of Greta Thunberg, as she spoke at Davos: Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still

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better post-pandemic world, we'll need to achieve similar results despite being in an economy that is fully up and running again. Notes 1 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found in under the title, “Our

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house is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta

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-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate.2“Ibidem”. 2 “Ibidem”. 3 “School Strike for Climate—Save the World by Changing the Rules,” Greta Thunberg, TEDxStockholm, December 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A&t=1m46s. 4 Asperger Syndrome, National Autistic Society, United Kingdom, https://www.autism.org.uk

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/about/what-is/asperger.aspx. 5 Greta Thunberg, Twitter, August 2019, https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1167916636394754049. 6 “Greta Thunberg: How One Teenager Became the Voice of the Planet,” Amelia Tait, Wired, June 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/article

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/greta-thunberg-climate-crisis. 7 “Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, Approved by Governments,” IPCC, October 2018, https://www.ipcc.

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, December 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/german-air-travel-slump-points-to-spread-of-flight-shame?sref=61mHmpU4. 41 “How Greta Thunberg and ‘Flygskam’ Are Shaking the Global Airline Industry,” Nicole Lyn Pesce, MarketWatch, December 2019, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/flygskam-is-the-swedish-travel-trend

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to Decisive Climate Action,” World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group, January 2020, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Net_Zero_Challenge.pdf. 50 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found under the title “‘Our house

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is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta

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to sign a compact confirming their commitment. In the following years, pressure from social and climate justice movements such as Fridays for Future (inspired by Greta Thunberg), #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter added to the sense of urgency. Business needed to do more than make a well-intentioned but vague pledge. By

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unsustainability, 3 Cleveland (Ohio), 159 Climate Action Tracker, 191 Climate change Anthropocene label on human responsibility for, 161 Fridays for Climate strikes (2018), 149, 250 Greta Thunberg's activism on, 52, 86, 147–150, 250 megatrends driving, 159–162 Paris Agreement (2015) on, 150, 165, 182, 183, 189, 198 reasons for lack

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in New York (2002), 17–18 Benioff's comments on need to shift toward stakeholder model, 201 the first European Management Forum (1971), 11, 88 Greta Thunberg's speech (2019) at, 53, 147, 149–150, 168, 250 Marc Benioff's speech on capitalism (2020) during, 164, 211 Net-Zero Challenge invitation to

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

these past few years, as they start to demand more urgent climate action. Inspired to a large degree by peers such as Swedish school student Greta Thunberg, hundreds of thousands of climate activists have been hitting the streets, giving speeches to whomever would listen and changing their own habits where possible. We

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understand their concerns and for this reason invited Greta Thunberg to speak at our Annual Meeting in 2019. Thunberg's foremost message was that “our house is on fire”86 and that we should act

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protestors of the Youth for Climate movement advocated for much stronger action on climate by governments and lawmakers. The most prominent among them, the Swedish Greta Thunberg, was even invited to make her case in the French Parliament. But on the other hand, Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, hit the streets of

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political movements in their present form have done so. And the media has failed to create broad public awareness.1 These were the words from Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike

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the loss of biodiversity, the decline in natural resources, and various forms of pollution, can be reversed as well. But as young activities such as Greta Thunberg warn, we do need to accelerate action. Take the most pressing issue, climate change. Slowing, let alone stopping, it is a challenge that can only

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vast majority of other companies can, as well. In this regard, we must remain optimistic. It is an area where we share the analysis of Greta Thunberg, as she spoke at Davos: Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still

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better post-pandemic world, we'll need to achieve similar results despite being in an economy that is fully up and running again. Notes 1 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found in under the title, “Our

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house is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta

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-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate.2“Ibidem”. 2 “Ibidem”. 3 “School Strike for Climate—Save the World by Changing the Rules,” Greta Thunberg, TEDxStockholm, December 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A&t=1m46s. 4 Asperger Syndrome, National Autistic Society, United Kingdom, https://www.autism.org.uk

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/about/what-is/asperger.aspx. 5 Greta Thunberg, Twitter, August 2019, https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1167916636394754049. 6 “Greta Thunberg: How One Teenager Became the Voice of the Planet,” Amelia Tait, Wired, June 2019, https://www.wired.co.uk/article

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/greta-thunberg-climate-crisis. 7 “Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC, Approved by Governments,” IPCC, October 2018, https://www.ipcc.

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, December 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-19/german-air-travel-slump-points-to-spread-of-flight-shame?sref=61mHmpU4. 41 “How Greta Thunberg and ‘Flygskam’ Are Shaking the Global Airline Industry,” Nicole Lyn Pesce, MarketWatch, December 2019, https://www.marketwatch.com/story/flygskam-is-the-swedish-travel-trend

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to Decisive Climate Action,” World Economic Forum and Boston Consulting Group, January 2020, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Net_Zero_Challenge.pdf. 50 Greta Thunberg, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, held in Davos, Switzerland, January 2019. An edited version of this speech can be found under the title “‘Our house

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is on fire’: Greta Thunberg, 16, Urges Leaders to Act on Climate,” The Guardian, January 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta

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to sign a compact confirming their commitment. In the following years, pressure from social and climate justice movements such as Fridays for Future (inspired by Greta Thunberg), #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter added to the sense of urgency. Business needed to do more than make a well-intentioned but vague pledge. By

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unsustainability, 3 Cleveland (Ohio), 159 Climate Action Tracker, 191 Climate change Anthropocene label on human responsibility for, 161 Fridays for Climate strikes (2018), 149, 250 Greta Thunberg's activism on, 52, 86, 147–150, 250 megatrends driving, 159–162 Paris Agreement (2015) on, 150, 165, 182, 183, 189, 198 reasons for lack

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in New York (2002), 17–18 Benioff's comments on need to shift toward stakeholder model, 201 the first European Management Forum (1971), 11, 88 Greta Thunberg's speech (2019) at, 53, 147, 149–150, 168, 250 Marc Benioff's speech on capitalism (2020) during, 164, 211 Net-Zero Challenge invitation to

Risk: A User's Guide

by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico  · 4 Oct 2021  · 489pp  · 106,008 words

chose to maintain its existing trajectory in the hope that Total Access would eventually prove profitable. the house is on fire ■ On the first day, Greta Thunberg sat alone outside the Swedish Parliament—holding her small sign and eating her packed lunch. She remained the length of the school day, until her

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the first day of the Fridays for Future movement that would spread across the globe as young students protested climate change. Though a small act, Greta Thunberg’s first school strike had ripple effects—prompting an international conversation about climate change. Her cause is for our world leaders to act—she shames

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it had thirty-one million subscribers in the United States, three million more than HBO, and that its stock was at an all-time high.” Greta Thunberg holds a school strike for climate sign outside the Swedish Parliament. In 2020, twenty years after the two CEOs had first met, there is only

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Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland, “Time 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg,” Time, accessed December 14, 2020, https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/. father picked her up: Alter, Haynes, and Worland, “Time 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg.” Fridays for Future movement: Alter, Haynes, and Worland, “Time 2019 Person

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of the Year: Greta Thunberg.” “We are in the beginning”: Alter, Haynes, and Worland, “Time 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg”; “Transcript: Greta Thunberg’s Speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit,” National

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Public Radio, September 23, 2019, https://npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit. Thunberg stresses that the clock

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: “Transcript: Greta Thunberg’s Speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit.” She implores leaders to: “ ‘I Want You to Panic

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Issues Climate Warning at Davos,” uploaded by Guardian News, January 25, 2019, https://youtube.com/watch?v=RjsLm5PCdVQ. A year later, she lamented: Somini Sengupta, “Greta Thunberg’s Message at Davos Forum: ‘Our House Is Still on Fire,’ ” The New York Times, January 21, 2020, https://nytimes.com/2020/01/21/climate

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/greta-thunberg-davos.html. The determined Thunberg has: Alter, Haynes, and Worland, “Time 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg.” defunded the Total Access program: Keating, Netflixed, chap. 13. Meanwhile, Netflix “announced”: Ken Auletta, “Outside the Box

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by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis. But we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. —Greta Thunberg, 22 April 2019 One day in August 2018, a schoolgirl in Sweden started a school strike. At first it was hardly a strike. It was

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bemusement at the sight of the then unknown 15-year-old sitting on the cobblestones with a hand-painted banner.”1 On 13 March 2019, Greta Thunberg was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.2 In April 2019 she took the train to London to address climate change protesters there. Almost one

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the United Kingdom. In the summer of 2019, still aged sixteen, as she was when she explained the situation very simply in London in April, Greta Thunberg crossed the Atlantic: “It took 13 days and 18 hours for the Malizia II to complete the journey from Plymouth, England across the North Atlantic

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, past the Azores, to New York City.”3 At the time of writing, Greta Thunberg was taking her message across the Americas. So how did this story begin? THE EARLIEST HUMAN-MADE CARBON EMISSIONS Everything is connected. The growth of

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we hyped as new and amazing at the start of the twenty-first century was, in hindsight, simply hype. CHAPTER 5. Climate Epigraph: Jacob Jarvis, “Greta Thunberg Speech: Activist Tells Extinction Rebellion London Protesters ‘We Will Make People in Power Act on Climate Change,’” London Evening Standard, 21 April 2019, https://www

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.standard.co.uk/news/london/greta-thunberg-tells-extinction-rebellion-protesters-we-will-make-people-in-power-act-on-climate-a4122926.html. 1. Jonathan Watts, “A Teen Started a Global Climate Protest

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Nobel-Nominated Teen,” USA Today, 15 March 2019, https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/14/climate-change-swedish-teen-greta-thunberg-leads-worldwide-protest/3164579002/. 3. Tessa Stuart, “Greta Thunberg Ups Climate Pressure Ahead of UN Summit: ‘This Has to Be a Tipping Point,’” Rolling Stone, 29 August 2019, https://www

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.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/climate-crisis-activist-greta-thunberg-united-nations-summit-877973/, which explains that the Malizia II is “a 60-foot, solar- and wind-powered monohull belonging to the Principality of Monaco

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in Relation to Sex (London: John Murray, 1871), 2:201, http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=1&itemID=F937.1&viewtype=text. 51. Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (London: Penguin, 2019). CHAPTER 11. Life Epigraph: Quoted in Mark O’Brien and Paul Kyprianou, Just

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are played by autistic people coincides with the fact that autistic women and girls are becoming public figures in areas only tangentially related to autism. Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist, is perhaps the most famous autistic person in the world. Her supporters have suggested she deserves the Nobel Prize. Just

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to be accepted even then. However, kids from the generation after mine grew up understanding their autism and eventually owning it. There are kids, like Greta Thunberg, who are aware that their autism makes them better advocates. And kids like Chris and Cori Williams’ children, who grow up with families that love

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house: Erica Milsom, interview with the author, 2020. suggested she deserves the Nobel Prize: Damian Carrington, “Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize,” Guardian, March 14, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/14/greta-thunberg-nominated-nobel-peace-prize. a reason she can be so strident: Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin

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Worland, “Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg,” Time, December 2019, https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/. climate change in primary school: Greta Thunberg, “The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change,” Ted Talks, January 28, 2019, https://www

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.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate_change/transcript?language=en. 8. “Say It Loud” behavioral aide of Arnaldo Rios-Soto: Aneri Pattani

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to the coming onslaught. Sitting out in the audience, the Big Oil titan wasn’t amused. The executive was likely even more put off by Greta Thunberg, the teenage climate activist whose world-on-fire rhetoric made the smug Davos elite squirm. (The previous year, she’d made headlines when she told

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will have to change at some point if the human race is going to survive.” Skeptics might dismiss so-called Cassandras like Rupert Read or Greta Thunberg screaming civilization is finished, but this was J.P. Freaking Morgan wringing its hands about existential risk and ruin problems. Read leaked the report to

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carbon emissions continued to escalate around the world, with little sign of slowing or of governments taking meaningful action beyond the empty promises that enraged Greta Thunberg. Indeed, in 2018, it seemed the world was going backward. The Trump administration had dropped out of the Paris Accords. Brazil had elected a far

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fucked!” The news at the time was full of images of devastating flooding that immersed more than half of Venice under several feet of water. Greta Thunberg, then a little-known fifteen-year-old climate activist from Sweden, handed out leaflets that read “I’m doing this because you adults are shitting

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on my future.” Only a month before, the Guardian had introduced her to the world. “Following Sweden’s hottest summer ever, Greta Thunberg decided to go on school strike at the parliament to get politicians to act. Why bother to learn anything in school if politicians won’t

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that had gathered. “Either we go on as a civilization or we don’t. We have to change.” After she finished, Read took the microphone. “Greta Thunberg everybody!” he cheered. “What an incredible hero she is. Lighting the way for the future.” Rupert Read, however, was not optimistic about the future. The

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sea levels are on the way, he warned. Hearing the testimony that day, one might imagine the Senators were being subjected to tongue-lashings by Greta Thunberg—or Rupert Read—not a retired grandfatherly Goldman Sachs quant and an executive at Europe’s largest money manager. The financial world, indeed, was waking

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conflagrations (dropping not water bombs but actual explosives). The whole country seemed to shrivel. Towards the end of the summer, a fifteen-year-old girl, Greta Thunberg, took her bike to the Swedish parliament. She sat down on the pavement and declared a school strike for the climate. The picture of vulnerability

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the global North, known for its youthful, joyful, exuberant, respectful, orderly manifestations. But there was also a darker undertone to the events: a simmering anger. Greta Thunberg personified it. Her silhouette hovered above millions of young people, as a sign of the intergenerational injustice at the heart of climate breakdown. She was

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cumulative process and rising loop, like the climate crisis itself. The American and European sections have learnt from each other – divestment coming to English campuses, Greta Thunberg sailing to New York – and the cadres have accumulated a wealth of experiences. These include ‘small wins’ – a gas pipeline cancelled here, a coal plant

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fossil fuels will go the same way – and the abolitionists as armed with moral force. Or, as one Oxford professor much taken by XR and Greta Thunberg wrote in 2019, by way of analogy: ‘The anti-slavery movement only took off once white people in Europe and America began to see people

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social depth, articulate the antagonisms that run through this crisis and, not the least, acquire a tactical asset? Does this movement possess a radical flank? Greta Thunberg might well be the climate equivalent of Rosa Parks, an inspiration she has acknowledged and often been compared to. But she is not (yet) an

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released report … Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting, Klimatförändringarnas lokala effekter: Exempel från tre kommuner, skr.se, June 2019. p. 19. ‘If the emissions have to stop …’ Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (London: Penguin, 2018), pp. 7, 10. p. 19. ‘How dare you

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! …’ Greta Thunberg, ‘If World Leaders Choose to Fail Us, My Generation Will Never Forgive Them’, Guardian, 23 September 2019. p. 19. Back home in Sweden, one of

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dramatically. A few weeks later, I was in Barcelona chairing a discussion session with four young activists, all schoolgirls, two from XR and two from Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future movement. All girls, several were understandably nervous about going on stage in front of a big audience, but they hit the

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the circular economy, promoting resilience and regeneration •Icons of Green Swan carbon futures: e.g., James Lovelock, Margrethe Vestager, Tesla, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), and Greta Thunberg 4. Other examples •Outbreak of World War I; “Spanish flu” epidemic, 1918–1920; ecological impact of e.g., DDT; dissolution of the USSR for those

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), and the late Tessa Tennant, a long-time colleague and friend who pioneered sustainable investment. 23.Emma Brockes listens in to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greta Thunberg, “Show Up. Stand Up. Act,” Guardian Weekend, June 29, 2019. 24.Somini Sengupta and Alexander Villegas, “Tiny Costa Rica Has a Green New Deal. It

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-3. 29.Javier C. Hernandez, “Journalists in Xi era: ‘We’re almost extinct’,” The New York Times, July 15, 2019. 30.https://ocasio2018.com 31.Greta Thunberg’s 2019 Davos speech to CEOs, https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/greta-speeches#greta_speech_jan25_2019. 32.Ali Smith, “They See Us As a Threat

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