Greta Thunberg

description: a Swedish environmental activist known for her efforts to combat climate change

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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg
Published 14 Feb 2023

Classification: LCC QC903 .T59 2023 (print) | LCC QC903 (ebook) | DDC 363.738/7452—dc23/eng20230113 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022049218 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022049219 Cover design: Darren Haggar Cover image: Warming Stripes by Professor Ed Hawkins, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading Designed by Jim Stoddart, adapted for ebook by 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. 1.3 Our Evolutionary Impact Beth Shapiro / Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Santa Cruz and author of Life as We Made It. 1.4 Civilization and Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert / Staff writer for the New Yorker 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. 1.7 Why Didn’t They Act?

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Naomi Oreskes / Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. 1.8 Tipping Points and Feedback Loops Johan Rockström / Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate 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 Saving Us. 2.3 Methane and Other Gases Zeke Hausfather / Climate research lead at Stripe, research scientistat Berkeley Earth. 2.4 Air Pollution and Aerosols Bjørn H.

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PART 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 about Government Climate Targets Alexandra Urisman Otto / Climate reporter 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 dozen books, including The End of Nature and Eaarth. 4.6 The Rise of Renewables Glen Peters / Research Director at the Centre for International Climate Research in Oslo; member of the executive team of the Global Carbon Budget; an IPCC lead author. 4.7 How Can Forests Help Us?

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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab
Published 7 Jan 2021

As we try and move to a 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 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-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?

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An edited version of this speech can be found in under the title, “Our 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-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/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/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.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/pr_181008_P48_spm_en.pdf. 8 “The Limits to Growth,” The Club of Rome, 1972, https://www.clubofrome.org/report/the-limits-to-growth/. 9 “A Partner in Shaping History,” World Economic Forum, p. 55, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf.10“These 79 CEOs believe in global climate action”, World Economic Forum, November 2015, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/open-letter-from-ceos-to-world-leaders-urging-climate-action/. 10 “A Partner in Shaping History,” World Economic Forum, p. 55, http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_First40Years_Book_2010.pdf.10“These 79 CEOs believe in global climate action”, World Economic Forum, November 2015, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/open-letter-from-ceos-to-world-leaders-urging-climate-action/. 11 “Global Emissions Have Not Yet Peaked,” Our World in Data, August 2020, https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions#global-emissions-have-not-yet-peaked. 12 “A Breath of Fresh Air from an Alpine Village,” Swissinfo, https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/tuberculosis-and-davos_a-breath-of-fresh-air-for-an-alpine-village/41896580. 13 “Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate,” The New York Times, June 1988, https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html. 14 “What Is the UNFCCC,” United Nations Climate Change, https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-convention/what-is-the-united-nations-framework-convention-on-climate-change. 15 “Global Extreme Poverty,” Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty. 16 “Ethiopia Secures Over $140 Million USD Export Revenue from Industrial Parks,” Ethiopian Investment Commission, October 2019, http://www.investethiopia.gov.et/index.php/information-center/news-and-events/868-ethiopia-secures-over-$-140-million-usd-export-revenue-from-industrial-parks.html.17Testimony based on an interview with Senait Sorsa by Peter Vanham, Awasa, Ethiopia, September 2019. 17 Testimony based on an interview with Senait Sorsa by Peter Vanham, Awasa, Ethiopia, September 2019. 18 “Interview with Senait Sorsa by Peter Vanham, Awasa, Ethiopia, September 2019” 19 .19“GDP Growth (annual %), Ethiopia,” World Bank, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?

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Indeed, the dangers posed by global warming have become a major worry for the next generation of youth 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 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 with an utmost sense of urgency. We hope we will heed the next generation's call to create a more sustainable economic system with more urgency than in 1973.

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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham
Published 27 Jan 2021

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Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger
Published 28 Jun 2020

Richard Rhodes (historian) in discussion with the author, November 12, 2019. 71. Brendan O’Neill, “The Madness of Extinction Rebellion,” Spiked, October 7, 2019, 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 the rules then the rules must be broken. #ExtinctionRebellion,” Twitter, October 15, 2019, 12:24 p.m., https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1184188303295336448. 74.

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Savannah Lovelock and Sarah Lunnon, interviewed by Sophy Ridge, Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Sky News, October 6, 2019, 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 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. 85. Sir Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (London, Paris, and Melbourne: Cassell & Sons, Ltd., 1893), https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5500/5500-h/5500-h.htm. 86.

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You can set up a wall to try to contain ten thousand and twenty thousand, one million people, but not ten million.”19 “Around the year 2030, in ten years, 250 days, and ten hours, we will be in a position where we set off an 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-nine-year-old congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat down for an interview with a correspondent for The Atlantic. AOC, as she is known, made the case for a Green New Deal, one that would address poverty and social inequality in addition to climate change.

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Risk: A User's Guide
by Stanley McChrystal and Anna Butrico
Published 4 Oct 2021

outside the Swedish Parliament: Charlotte 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 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 Public Radio, September 23, 2019, https://npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit.

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Climate Action Summit,” National 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: “Transcript: Greta Thunberg’s Speech at the U.N. Climate Action Summit.” She implores leaders to: “ ‘I Want You to Panic’: 16-Year-Old 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/greta-thunberg-davos.html. The determined Thunberg has: Alter, Haynes, and Worland, “Time 2019 Person of the Year: Greta Thunberg.”

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Still, it 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 father picked her up to bike home. This was 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 those who do not, who willingly continue the status quo as the world continues to warm up.

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm
Published 4 Jan 2021

The climate movement in the global North … Useful accounts of the evolution of the movement include Matthias Dietz and Heiko Garrelts (eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2014); Carl Cassegård, Linda Soneryd, Håkan Thörn and Åsa Wettergren (eds.), Climate Action in a Globalizing World: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Movements in the Global North (New York: Routledge, 2017); Andrew Cheon and Johannes Urpelainen, Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018), the latter with an exclusive focus on the US movement. p. 17. according to a newly 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! …’ 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 them … Maria G. Francke, ‘En ny Greta är född’, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, sydsvenskan.se, 23 September 2019.

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In the summer of 2018, a dome of heat lodged over the European continent, withheld the clouds for months on end and ignited firestorms of unseen intensity; in Sweden, military jets were called in to bomb the 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 and defiance – one lone adolescent girl, with a life on a warming planet ahead of her, against the stonedeaf walls of an entire political system – she touched a nerve in her generation.

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There were potentials for continued growth, the cycle perhaps swinging into an even higher circuit, simply because the problem in itself followed that trajectory. It would not die away. For the first time, the climate movement had become the single most dynamic social movement in 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 mercilessly blunt when scolding world leaders for their passivity. ‘If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions’, she would say with incontestable, uncompromising logic, but ‘no one is acting as if we were in a crisis’.

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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published 25 Feb 2020

Erica Chenoweth, “The ‘3.5% Rule’: How a Small Minority Can Change the World,” Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, May 14, 2019, https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/news/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world. 103. Fridays for Future, https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/. 104. Jonathan Watts, “ ‘Biggest Compliment Yet’: Greta Thunberg Welcomes Oil Chief’s ‘Greatest Threat’ Label,” Guardian (U.S. edition), July 5, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/05/biggest-compliment-yet-greta-thunberg-welcomes-oil-chiefs-greatest-threat-label. CONCLUSION: A NEW STORY 1. More on Sputnik from NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, “Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age,” October 10, 2007, https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/. 2.

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In Seoul, South Korea, the streets teem with elementary schoolchildren sporting multicolored backpacks and carrying banners that say CLIMATE STRIKE—in English, for the benefit of the media. In Bangkok, hundreds of teenage students take to the streets. With firm resolve and heavy hearts, they walk behind their defiant leader, an eleven-year-old girl carrying a sign: THE OCEANS ARE RISING AND SO ARE WE. All over the world, millions of young people—inspired by Greta Thunberg, the teenage girl who began a lone protest in front of the Swedish parliament—are engaging in civil disobedience to draw attention to climate change. Students understand the scientific projections and are terrified about the diminished quality of life on their horizon. They demand decisive action now.

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The well-publicized pay gap (women are paid 20 percent less than men for the same work) is another manifestation and shows that many perceptions continue to be subjective and discriminatory.88 Before we can work to correct the imbalance of power and decision making, we have to acknowledge that it exists, often but not always based on structural unconscious bias. Right now that is still lost on many. Nonetheless many women have recognized the unique gravity of our situation on climate change. Intrepid leaders like Natalie Isaacs, Isra Hirsi, Nakabuye Flavia, Greta Thunberg, and Penelope Lea have mobilized millions of young people who are now demanding urgent climate action and implementing it themselves. Women are at the forefront of collaborative efforts to support each other in the face of our changing climate. In many countries, women’s intimate knowledge of the land means they are quicker to spot environmental changes, to learn from them, and out of necessity, find ways to adapt.

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Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure
Published 18 May 2020

Doyle Rice and Doug Stanglin, “The Kid Is All Right: Friday’s Worldwide Climate Protest Sparked by 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.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.” 4.

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Initially her classmates were not interested in joining: “Passers-by expressed pity and 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 thousand had been arrested by the end of the Easter weekend for blocking roads and bridges in the capital city of 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, past the Azores, to New York City.”3 At the time of writing, Greta Thunberg was taking her message across the Americas.

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It may mean nothing to you, depending on when you read this book. So much that 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.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. What Are You Doing?” Wired, 12 March 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/a-teen-started-a-global-climate-protest-what-are-you-doing/. 2.

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We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
by Eric Garcia
Published 2 Aug 2021

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 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.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate_change/transcript?

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To make her as comfortable as possible, the audition was held at Bandy’s art center and her vocal parts were recorded at her house. The creation of fictional autistic female characters that 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 like Eryn Star, Thunberg was born a generation after me, which means she had the good fortune of growing up in a society that at least had a working knowledge of autism.

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When I briefly talked with some kids from a campus autism group, I realized there were no other openly autistic people in the group itself; it was seen as more of a charity activity. I never went to a meeting, so it’s true, there were not many places 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 and accept them, and Lydia Wayman, who has people who support her. “That is absolutely amazing to me,” Ne’eman said. “They’ve grown up with this, with being connected to a community that has agency in a way that I never had.”

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The Dark Cloud: How the Digital World Is Costing the Earth
by Guillaume Pitron
Published 14 Jun 2023

For further reading on predictions of the Internet’s expansion to all of humanity, read ‘Humans on the Internet will triple from 2015 to 2022 and hit 6 billion’, Cybercrime Magazine, 18 July 2019. 6 ‘10 hot summer trends 2030’, Ericsson ConsumerLab, December 2019. 7 ‘Giant cell blob can learn and teach, study shows’, Science News, 21 December 2016. 8 Interview with Inès Leonarduzzi, director of Digital For The Planet, 2019. 9 Interviews with Françoise Berthoud, IT research engineer, 2019 and 2020. 10 ‘Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety’, report of the working group directed by Hugues Ferreboeuf for the think tank The Shift Project, March 2019. 11 Interview with Jaan Tallinn, founder of Skype and the Future of Life Institute, 2020. 12 Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft: the five most powerful US companies of the digital economy. 13 To borrow the term used by Agnès Crepet, Head of Software Longevity & IT at Fairphone. 14 fridaysforfuture.org 15 The start-up in question is We Don’t Have Time: wedonthavetime.org 16 ‘What’s Behind Climate Change Activist Greta Thunberg’s Remarkable Rise to Fame?’, The Spectator, 13 February 2019. 17 Victoria Rideout, Michael B. Ross, ‘The common sense census: media used by tweens and teens’, Common Sense Media, 2019. 18 ‘La face cachée du numérique – Réduire les impacts du numérique sur l’environnement’ [‘The dark side of digital – reducing the impacts of digital on the environment’], ADEME, January 2021. 19 Simon Kessler and Johan Boulanger, Generation Greta, 53-minute documentary, AFP and Galaxie Presse, 2020. 20 ‘J’ai trois Greta Thunberg à la maison… Ces ados écolos qui prennent en main le bilan carbone de la famille’ [‘I have three Greta Thunbergs at home… Green teens taking control of the family carbon footprint’], Le Monde, 16 November 2019. 21 ‘Today’s youth, tomorrow’s Internet: A Nominet Digital Futures Report’, Nominet, 2019. 22 ‘Being young in Europe today — digital world’, Eurostat, July 2020. 23 ‘The Perils of Progress’, The New Republic, New York, 29 June 2010. 24 Trine Syversten, Media Resistance: Protest, Dislike, Abstention, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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From Sydney to San Francisco, from Berlin to Manila, ‘Friday strikes’ have been galvanising young activists to take political leaders and businesses to task for their lack of action on the climate crisis.14 It is more than a spontaneous, horizontal, mostly female movement led by idealists of justice and solidarity: it is a digital phenomenon, amplified by a flood of hashtags and YouTube videos. It began in 2018 when young Greta Thunberg organised the first climate strike on the day students went back to class. The bold Swedish activist became an icon after a photo of her holding a placard in front of the Swedish parliament went viral in just two hours. That’s how the legend goes, at least. Less known is that the photo was taken by a professional photographer sent by a Swedish climate-focused start-up looking to create a buzz.15 The images then landed in the hands of talented community managers, who calibrated a powerful message for social media.

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Less known is that the photo was taken by a professional photographer sent by a Swedish climate-focused start-up looking to create a buzz.15 The images then landed in the hands of talented community managers, who calibrated a powerful message for social media. A star is born … digitally!16 None of this takes away from the sincerity of Greta Thunberg’s fight. But let us not forget that, like this stroke of marketing genius now subscribed to by 16 million followers on Twitter and Instagram, the ‘climate generation’ is predominantly made up of young consumers hooked on digital tools. In the US, teenagers spend up to seven hours and twenty-two minutes of their free time per day in front of a screen.17 Three hours of that time is spent watching videos on Netflix or Orange Cinema Series (OCS), and at least one hour is spent on social networks such as TikTok, SnapChat, Twitch, House Party, and Discord.

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Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson
Published 5 Jun 2023

and “We’re 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 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 pay attention to the facts?”

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Starkly, he warned that it was probably already too late. What was needed was a massive redistribution of wealth to help those in the world’s poorest populations who were most exposed 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 the audience, “I don’t want your hope. I want you to panic.”) In her 2020 address titled “Averting the Climate Apocalypse,” she chastised world leaders for their failure to act: “Any plan or policy of yours that doesn’t include radical emission cuts at the source starting today is completely insufficient for meeting the 1.5 or well below two degree commitments of the Paris agreements.

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“We cannot rule out catastrophic outcomes where human life as we know it is threatened,” the January 14, 2020, report said. “Although precise predictions are not possible, it is clear that the Earth is on an unsustainable trajectory. Something 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 the Guardian, which ran an article with the headline “JP Morgan Economists Warn Climate Crisis Is Threat to Human Race.” (The New Republic had a catchier headline: “The Planet Is Screwed, Says Bank That Screwed the Planet.”)

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What We Need to Do Now: A Green Deal to Ensure a Habitable Earth
by Chris Goodall
Published 30 Jan 2020

And shipping should run on hydrogen CHAPTER 6: SUSTAINABLE FASHION Without big changes, clothing alone will stop us achieving net zero CHAPTER 7: CONCRETE PROBLEMS Using less cement and other resources – and replacing fossil fuels in heavy industry CHAPTER 8: PLANT FOOD REVOLUTION The global climate costs of meat are not sustainable CHAPTER 9: REFORESTING BRITAIN Using forests and woodland to suck CO2 from the air CHAPTER 10: CARBON TAXATION The economist’s answer to the climate crisis CHAPTER 11: DIRECT AIR CAPTURE OF CO2 A vital technology for reducing carbon dioxide levels CHAPTER 12: SHOULD WE GEOENGINEER? Preparing to combat the worst consequences of climate change CHAPTER 13: WHAT WE CAN DO OURSELVES It’s not just governments – our own actions can make a real difference FURTHER READING ‘The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not’ Greta Thunberg at the United Nations 23 September 2019 WHAT WE NEED TO DO NOW FOR A ZERO CARBON SOCIETY Chris Goodall NOTES & SOURCES For sources of data throughout this book, most of them online, see the ‘What we need to do now’ section on my Carbon Commentary website (www.carboncommentary.com).

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The UK has made decent progress in recent decades, cutting domestic emissions by 43 per cent since 1990, although a rising volume of imports with high carbon footprints are not included in this figure, nor international aviation and shipping. If all these factors are included, the figures may be closer to 10 per cent (as Greta Thunberg told the UK’s MPs in 2019). And it has to be said that most of these reductions have been achieved in relatively easy areas, for example, from the decommissioning of coal-fired power stations. In recent years, progress has slowed, just when it needs to be ramped up to lightning speed. Most independent sources see the UK missing its existing official targets from 2023 onwards.

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But ‘vehicle-to-grid’ software and hardware is still an open field, which Britain could hope to dominate. We need to push governments and research organisations to concentrate their efforts on such technological developments. CHAPTER 5 FLIGHTS AND SHIPPING We need to fly less — the hardest challenge for zero carbon. And shipping should run on hydrogen Greta Thunberg’s August 2019 trip across the Atlantic in a racing yacht dramatically highlighted the climate impact of both air and sea travel. Long-distance transport is very difficult to decarbonise and aviation is perhaps the most difficult challenge on the road to a zero carbon society, particularly for the UK.

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Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy
by David Frum
Published 25 May 2020

John Nolte (@NolteNC), Twitter, September 23, 2019, 1:22 p.m., https://twitter.com/noltenc/status/1176185011776761857. 8. Erick Erickson, “The Left’s Abusive Use of Greta Thunberg,” Resurgent, August 30, 2019, https://theresurgent.com/2019/08/30/the-lefts-abusive-use-of-greta-thunberg/. 9. Josh Hammer, “HAMMER: Using Children to Advance Your Political Agenda Isn’t Just Wrong. It’s Evil,” Daily Wire, September 24, 2019, https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-using-children-advance-your-political-josh-hammer. 10. Brendan O’Neill, “The Cult of Greta Thunberg,” Spiked, April 22, 2019, https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/04/22/the-cult-of-greta-thunberg/. 11. Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, September 23, 2019, 11:36 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1176339522113679360. 12.

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To borrow a term they like to mock, it triggers them—and most especially when the topic is raised by younger people. “A 16-year-old Swedish girl whose contempt for adults is breathtaking is an international hero,” complained the radio host Dennis Prager of the sudden celebrity of climate activist Greta Thunberg.6 Breitbart contributor John Nolte tweeted: “I can’t tell if Greta needs a spanking or a psychological intervention . . . Probably both.”7 Radio host Erick Erickson declared Thunberg a mouthpiece for manipulative adults. “No, I am not going to be lectured to by a 16 year old just because she gets access to a prince’s private yacht.”8 A contributor to the Daily Wire fumed: “The notion that policymakers ought to consider proposing policy due to the fraught and hysterical pleas of a 16-year-old is, naturally, insane.”9 The British anti-environmentalist journalist Brendan O’Neill wrote, “The green cult has pushed Ms Thunberg into the position of its global leader, its childlike saviour, the messiah of their miserabilist political creed . . .

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How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
by Rowan Hooper
Published 15 Jan 2020

DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4369 5 Fiona Harvey (2020) ‘UK facing worst wheat harvest since 1980s, says farmers’ union’. www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/17/uk-facing-worst-wheat-harvest-since-1980s-national-farmers-union-nfu 6 Guardian (2019) ‘“The climate doesn’t need awards”: Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize’. www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/greta-thunberg-declines-award-climate-crisis 7 Jonathan Watts et al. (2020) ‘Oil firms to pour extra 7m barrels per day into markets, data shows’. www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/10/oil-firms-barrels-markets 8 In 2017, 56 per cent of India’s primary energy consumption was from coal; in 2040, that figure is projected to be 48 per cent.

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At the Paris climate talks in 2015 world leaders agreed to try to keep warming to 2 ºC and, if possible, 1.5 ºC. To do so would require huge cuts in carbon emissions, far bigger than the ones agreed at the talks, which the UN Environment Program said would heat the planet by 3 to 4 degrees this century. And, in the years since that ‘historic’ accord, emissions have gone up. Greta Thunberg was right to turn down the Nordic Council’s environmental award for 2019,6 and she was right to denounce world leaders at the United Nations for their lack of action. ‘We will never forgive you,’ she said. ‘How dare you.’ $ $ $ THERE CAN BE A SENSE OF DOOM about this, especially if you look at reports on and by the fossil fuel industry.

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It works very well, but it takes time to carefully describe and assign new specimens, as species needing names come in faster than we can classify them. Biologists have begun to loosen the rules over using morphological characteristics in the name – the evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has said he ran out of Latin words to describe new ant species. So a beetle has been named for Greta Thunberg, Nelloptodes gretae, and a particularly striking octopus was given the name Wonderpus photogenicus. The uranium-powered bacterium is Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator, the species name coming from the Latin message in Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth: ‘Descende, audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges’.

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The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
by Robert B. Reich
Published 24 Mar 2020

“Big business, elite media, and major donors are lining up behind the campaign of my opponent because they know she will keep our rigged system in place,” said Donald Trump in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention in 2016. “If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself,” said sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. As New York magazine’s Frank Rich put it: “Everything in the country is broken. Not just Washington, which failed to prevent the financial catastrophe and has done little to protect us from the next, but also race relations, health care, education, institutional religion, law enforcement, the physical infrastructure, the news media, the bedrock virtues of civility and community.

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But these institutions don’t wield power on their own. Particular people have outsized influence over them. They include CEOs like Jamie Dimon, large investors, hedge fund and private equity managers, media moguls, key lobbying groups like the Business Roundtable, and major donors to political candidates and universities. As Greta Thunberg observes, “If everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame. Some people—some companies and some decision-makers in particular—have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money.” To comprehend the nature of these decision makers’ influence over the system, you’ll need to understand the role of wealth.

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New America isn’t the only recipient of Google’s largesse. Despite its avowed concern about climate change, Google has made large donations to some of the most notorious climate change deniers in Washington, including the Heartland Institute, an anti-science group that has attacked teenage activist Greta Thunberg for “climate delusion hysterics,” and Heritage Action, which has alleged that the Paris climate accord is supported by “cosmopolitan elites.” Presumably, Google has made these donations because such groups don’t want government intruding on corporate America, especially Google. I’m aware of a nonprofit devoted to voting rights that decided not to launch a campaign against big money in politics for fear of alienating the wealthy donors it courts, and a liberal-leaning Washington think tank that released a study on inequality that failed to mention the role big corporations and Wall Street have played in weakening the nation’s labor and antitrust laws, presumably because the think tank didn’t want to antagonize its corporate and Wall Street donors.

The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
by Simon Baron-Cohen
Published 14 Aug 2020

If you are someone who scores extremely high on the SQ and extremely low on the EQ, and so have an Extreme Type S brain type—that is, if you’re a hyper-systemizer—this means you think differently compared to most people. That’s because your mind, in common with most autistic people, has a different operating system. Less focused on people and more focused on things and on patterns, your operating system struggles to function in some environments but in others it may confer what autistic climate activist Greta Thunberg calls “superpowers”: a talent at spotting if-and-then patterns, just like Jonah did as a child.31 Chapter 4 The Mind of an Inventor Over the decades I have watched as Jonah grew into a wonderful man with remarkable talents. Like a modern-day Linnaeus, Jonah also loves systemizing the world of plants.

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Whether it’s math or history or something far more focused, like an extinct ancient language, if the child simply wants to study only that subject for their whole semester, or their whole school career, it would still constitute a valuable education and prepare them for a specialist occupation. They should be allowed to pursue their strong narrow interest, sometimes pejoratively called their “obsession.” Greta Thunberg, the Swedish autistic teenager, has a strong narrow interest in climate breakdown, and she has succeeded in raising awareness of the urgency of this issue for the future of the planet.28 I’ve met such people, and they blossom when given the opportunity. Daniel Lightwing, whom I diagnosed with Asperger syndrome when he was a student at my college, Trinity, in Cambridge, represented the United Kingdom in the International Math Olympiad.

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On the genetic association between autism and mathematical ability, see S. Baron-Cohen et al. (2007), “Mathematical talent is linked to autism,” Human Nature 18, 125–131. 31. See J. Monroe (2019), “Go, Greta: Autism is my superpower too,” Guardian, April 27, www.theguardian.com/society/2019/apr/27/jack-monroe-autism-is-my-superpower-like-greta-thunberg; N. Prouix (2019), “Becoming Greta,” New York Times, February 21; S. Baron-Cohen (2020), “Without such families speaking out, their crises remain hidden,” part of L. Carpenter (2020), “Greta and Beata: How autism and climate activism affected the Thunberg family,” Times (of London) Magazine, February 28; and G.

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Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington
Published 6 Apr 2020

In short order, I had emails from one CEO demanding to know why I was going political, while others wanted to know whether they could invite the activists in and how they might declare a “climate emergency,” a key XR demand. Soon, the tempo picked up 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 proverbial ball out of the park. So I was fascinated shortly afterward to see a discussion between Thunberg, a one-person Green Swan,22 and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the American politician who lit up the presidential debates by calling for a Green New Deal.

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Carbon examples •Climate weirding, driven by e.g., greenhouse gases, ecosystem destruction, ocean acidification, unpriced externalities, rejection of science, myopia, and selfishness •Icons of Black Swan carbon futures: e.g., Donald Trump, the Koch Brothers7, ExxonMobil, Jair Bolsonaro, and Vladimir Putin •Carbon increasingly brought back into technological, economic, and ecological loops via policy incentives and investment in 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 living there; 9/11 attacks; the opioid crisis in the US; “The Great Hack”8; Brexit; “Insectageddon”9; spread of meat-based diets and fossil-powered cars across a growing global population; death of more than 500 million animals in Australian brushfires in 2019 •Impact of “Earthrise” image of our planet; rapid rise of environmentalism; restoration of Loess Plateau, China; rise of renewable energy; electric vehicles; green bonds; Denmark’s “Green Transition”; London declared a National Park City; development of plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, poultry, and fish; Stanford University $73 trillion Green New Deal plan for 143 countries; EU €1 trillion Green Deal © Volans 2019 Figure 8: The Swanspotter’s Guide, 1.0 Clearly, this is very much a work in progress.

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To see the signatories for free, see here: https://jeremyleggett.net/2019/04/22/letter-to-the-times-by-business-leaders-supportive-of-extinction-rebellion-of-which-i-am-proud-to-be-one/. 22.For me, at least, other one-person Green Swans would include Rachel Carson (author of books like Silent Spring), Wangari Maathai (the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize), James Lovelock (proponent of Gaia Theory), James Hansen (long-time climate scientist and activist), 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 Matters for the Whole Planet,” The New York Times, March 12, 2019. 25.Molly Taft, “Inside the Growing Climate Rebellion at Amazon,” Fast Company, June 11, 2019. 26.

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin
Published 14 Sep 2020

Fiona Harvey, “Paris Climate Change Agreement,” Guardian, December 14, 2015; Suzanne Goldenberg, John Vidal, Lenore Taylor, Adam Vaughan, and Fiona Harvey, “Paris Climate Deal,” Guardian, December 12, 2015 (secretary-general); Remarks by President Obama on the Paris Agreement, October 5, 2016; “Donald Trump Would ‘Cancel’ Paris Climate Deal,” BBC News, May 27, 2016 (Trump). 7. Global Climate Project, Global Climate Report 2019; Daniel Yergin, The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (New York: Penguin, 2011), pp. 422–28. 8. Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (New York: Penguin, 2019), pp. 10, 62, 96–99; Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland, “2019 Person of the Year—Greta Thunberg,” Time, December 11, 2019; Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, and Angela Valenzuela, “Why We Strike Again,” Project Syndicate, November 29, 2019. 9. Mark Carney, “Breaking the Tragedy of the Horizons—Climate Change and Financial Stability,” Speech, September 29, 2015. 10.

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The result is greater warming for the earth—thus known as the “greenhouse effect.”7 As the climate consensus has crystallized, concern and fervor have risen, fueled by the fear that an approaching “tipping point” will lead to “runaway climate change.” The growing dread is reflected in the vocabulary; “global warming” and “climate change” have given way to “climate crisis” and now “climate emergency” and “climate catastrophe.” The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg became the voice of this urgency, beginning when, in August 2018, as she put it, she “school-striked for the climate” outside the Swedish Parliament. Her message became zero carbon. “Expansion of airports,” she told the British Parliament in the spring of 2019, “is beyond absurd.” At the U.N.

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Now there are two eras for energy and climate—“Before Paris” and “After Paris.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey unveil the “Green New Deal” in 2019 that would use “massive federal investment” to eliminate oil, gas, and coal and make the United States carbon free by 2030. In August 2018, Greta Thunberg, then aged fifteen, skipped school to protest on climate. In little more than a year, she became a global climate phenomenon, with millions of Twitter followers, a speech to the United Nations Climate Summit, and selection as Time Person of the Year. Photovoltaic technology “is a bit magical,” says pioneer solar researcher Martin Green.

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The New Nomads: How the Migration Revolution Is Making the World a Better Place
by Felix Marquardt
Published 7 Jul 2021

The fact that Barack Obama, arguably the single most iconic figure of contemporary progressive politics, could not see the fundamental problem of taking part in a closed event with and for very rich people in a five-star palace in Stockholm speaks volumes to the blind spots privileged elites have regarding the discrimination that they too dole out. The organisers of Brilliant Minds invited Greta Thunberg to give the opening keynote. She pointed out to those assembled that flying around the world in private jets to celebrate their own brilliance and pontificate about sustainability and ‘making the world a better place’ was denying reality. That contrary to what they seemed to think, this behaviour could actually be worse than saying or doing nothing at all.

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I feel I owe it to all these people to share their stories. Not just the ones who agree with me.’ In December 2018, having walked 1,500km, Berenice arrived in Katowice, where she met a young woman I once met sitting under an umbrella outside the Swedish parliament as I was passing by with my daughter and our Labs: Greta Thunberg. Together, they have laid the foundations of the climate youth movement. In terms of political weight, these new nomads might seem to represent very little. Stalin’s question ‘the Vatican, how many tanks?’ comes to mind. But this hardly captures the momentum the transnational and translocal movements of climate protesters, many of whom are migrants or children of migrants, are garnering.

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I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to the nomads I met and interviewed in the process of researching this book, many of them at length, for their precious time and invaluable insights: Habib Kazdaghli; Alhaji Siraj Bah; Farzad Ban; Alia Wingstedt; Max Karlsson; Niall Saville; Emmanuella Zandi; Ankit Desai; Tania Beard; Paola Audrey; Ciku Kimeria; Jan H. Christiansen; Miguel Jonsson; Catherine Mayer; Alok Alström; Arnaud Castaignet; Gwamaka Kifukwe; Karoli Hindriks; Aida Hadžialic; Ibrahima Tounkara; Ben Sock; Yeb Saño; Greta Thunberg; Vic Barrett; Sani Tahir; Vybarr Cregan-Reid; presidents Kersti Kaljulaid and José Ramos-Horta; Joi Ito; Guyonne de Montjou; Max Ajl; Lu Gigliotti; Ramazan Nanayev; Julien Rochedy; Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir, Peter Smith, Nic Cary and Xen Herd; Kevin Anderson and Keri Facer; Nasita Fofana; Ays¸em Mert; Gareth Dale; Anjuli Pandit; Silja Voolma; Philippe Douste-Blazy; Lauren Proctor; Phoebe Tickell; Lennart Olsson; Stan Cox, Bryan Thompson, Pheonah Nabukalu and Fred Iutzi at the Land Institute; Sohnia van der Puye; Ilse van der Velden; Ben Anderson; Spencer Wells; Glenn Chisholm; Beta Grétarsdóttir; Eva Vlaardingerbroek; Efua Oyofo; Muyabwa Moza; Harper Reed; Anna-Hope Kabongo; Karim Sy and Keita Stephenson; Niki Jaiswal; Sophia Rashad; Matt Yanchyshyn; Matteo De Vos; Patrick Chadwick; Monika Karapetian; Nour Sharara; Gordon Cyrus; Paul da Silva; Asad Hussein; Assa Traoré; Noura Berrouba; Rabbi Stephen Berkowitz; and last but not least Franco Rivas.

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This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
by Extinction Rebellion
Published 12 Jun 2019

We helped pull together an international ‘emergency coalition’ to reject weak language that would have condemned them to extinction. While we in the Global North might only just be feeling the effects of climate change, the majority world has long since known the tragedy that the climate crisis brings. Support is also being provided to the youth-led school strike movement started by Greta Thunberg, and to the newly emerging Birthstrike movement which is taking off in many countries to support people who are choosing not to bring children into this world unless, and until, conditions improve. In the US, the Sunrise Movement is building bi-partisan support for a ten-year mobilization and investment plan called the Green New Deal.

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Investment on this scale will allow us to explore a new economic model, designed to improve life for everyone while protecting the natural environment we depend on, and measuring our success by people’s well-being, instead of company profits. This is about a paradigm shift in the way the world is structured and the way we live our lives. As Greta Thunberg told world leaders in December: ‘If solutions within the system are so impossible to find, maybe we should change the system itself.’ We need to harness the energy in people’s anger with the status quo into a movement that gathers in classrooms, living rooms, churches and village halls across the country.

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The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter
Published 18 Feb 2020

(Pew says the first millennials were born in 1981, but politics moves a little slower than everything else, so I extended the window to 1980 in order to include Carlos Curbelo.) Unfortunately, that meant leaving out exciting Gen X-ers such as Rep. Ayanna Pressley (b. 1974), former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (b. 1979), and GOP senator Josh Hawley (b. 1979), and powerful Gen-Z activists like Emma Gonzalez (b. 1999), David Hogg (b. 2000), and Greta Thunberg (b. 2003). They are all poised to make their mark on American politics, and they would be great characters in another book. If I had been writing in the mid-twentieth century, I would have followed the convention of calling public officials by their last names, mostly because so many of the white men in power at that time had the same first names: John, Michael, Robert, or James.

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Young people all over the world were realizing that the adults weren’t going to make their governments address climate change—so they would have to do it themselves. In 2018, a few months after the release of the IPCC report, a soft-spoken fifteen-year-old Swedish girl with Asperger’s syndrome named Greta Thunberg gave an electrifying speech at the annual United Nations climate talks in Poland that excoriated adult leaders for failing to act boldly to prevent climate catastrophe. “You say you love your children above all else,” she told a room full of world leaders, her two long braids hanging over her shoulders.

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Middle and elementary school kids brought homemade signs to the Women’s March, looking around a sea of terrified and furious adults. Teenage activists led the March for Our Lives protests against gun violence in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Students poured into the streets for the Global Climate Strike, led by sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg. College kids mobilized first-time voters to massively increase their turnout in the 2018 midterms. And after a whistleblower revealed in late 2019 that Trump had asked the Ukrainian president to dig up dirt on a political rival, young people watched as Democrats pushed for impeachment and Republicans twisted themselves into knots to excuse his behavior.

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England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight
by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears
Published 24 Apr 2024

, New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1855, p. 228. 80 See https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_englishflag.htm 81 See https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_burden.htm 82 Joseph Chamberlain, quoted in Julian Amery, The Life of Joseph Chamberlain V, London, Macmillan, 1969, p. 31. 83 See, for instance, https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Legend-Of-Drakes-Drum/ 84 See John Grindrod, Concretopia, London, Old Street, 2014; Jeremy Gould, Plymouth: Vision for a Modern City, Swindon, English Heritage, 2010. 85 See https://new.plymouth.gov.uk/plymouth-report 86 See https://www.plymouth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/VAWG_Report.pdf 87 Karl McDonald, ‘How David Davis promised the earth’, The i, 18 July 2016. 88 See https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763452863/transcript-greta-thunbergs-speech-at-the-u-n-climate-action-summit 89 ‘Greta Thunberg’, BBC News, 14 August 2019. 90 Mattha Busby, ‘Arron Banks jokes about Greta Thunberg’, Guardian, 15 August 2019. 91 See https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/04/these-3-countries-are-global-offshore-wind-powerhouses/, and https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-acceleration-of-homegrown-power-in-britains-plan-for-greater-energy-independence 92 ‘Parts of Plymouth which could vanish’, Plymouth Herald, 15 June 2021. 93 Sally Guyoncourt, ‘A young woman wears Walkers crisps’, The i, 18 September 2019; ‘Walkers launches recycling scheme’, BBC News, 10 December 2018. 94 ‘Nancy Astor’, BBC News, 28 November 2019. 95 See https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/11/examining-impacts-uk-foreign-aid-budget-cut 96 ‘What Impact Will the Covid-19 Crisis Have?’

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Then there was Charles Darwin to find evidence for his theory of evolution and keep quiet about it for twenty years for fear of outraging conservative Christian opinion, Captain Robert Scott to freeze to death in the Antarctic on a pointless race to the South Pole and Francis Chichester to sail single-handed ‘the wrong way’ around the world. But none of these voyages by dead Englishmen have as much relevance right now as one undertaken from the same city by a Swedish girl. Greta Thunberg left Plymouth in August 2019 hoping she might persuade world leaders to stop the ‘mass extinction’ of species including their own. Barely five foot tall and still only sixteen, she had become a global figurehead for young people protesting against climate change. Invited to address the United Nations in New York on the subject, Thunberg refused to fly because that would have meant using fossil fuels for the journey and instead relied on the natural power of the Atlantic’s ‘trade winds’ to take her across the ocean on a racing yacht.88 At a press conference held at the Mayflower Marina before her departure, she endured journalistic enquiries about her clothes and bathroom habits.

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Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Published 30 Aug 2021

Appealing to moral principles to mobilize people for change is also a universal source of power. If you think back to social change icons like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa or, more recently, Malala Yousafzai, their ideals are what enabled them to influence others. This is also how, in 2019, sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future mobilized an estimated 4 million people in 163 countries to march, protest, and join strikes for climate action.68 But while moral appeals are powerful, they are not always virtuous. Painting “other” individuals or groups or nations as “immoral” is a tried-and-true strategy for mobilizing people.

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To illustrate the process of social change and the role of power in it, we will draw on the experiences of three activists who are playing or have played pivotal roles in contemporary movements. For narrative purposes, we will consider each of the three roles independently. But remember, agitation without innovation means complaints without ways forward, and innovation without orchestration means ideas without impact.8 PUTTING AN ISSUE ON THE PUBLIC AGENDA In August 2018, Greta Thunberg, the teenager who has since become the face of the youth climate movement, drew the now-famous words “Skolstrejk för Klimatet” (School Strike for Climate) onto poster board and started skipping school, first every day and later every Friday, to protest her government’s inaction on climate change on the steps of the Swedish Parliament.

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See also Paul Slovic, “ ‘If I Look at the Mass I Will Never Act’: Psychic Numbing and Genocide,” Judgment and Decision-Making 2, no. 2 (2007): 79–95. 17 Eliza Barclay and Brian Resnick, “How Big Was the Global Climate Strike? 4 Million People, Activists Estimate,” Vox, September 22, 2019, https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/9/20/20876143/climate-strike-2019-september-20-crowd-estimate. 18 Greta Thunberg, 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 24), Katowice, Poland, 2018. 19 Henry David Thoreau, A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, eds. Sophie Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, and Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ticknor and Fields, 1866). 20 George Hendrick, “The Influence of Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ on Gandhi’s Satyagraha,” The New England Quarterly 29, no. 4 (1956): 462–71; Mark Engler and Paul Engler, This Is an Uprising (New York: Nation, 2017); Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action (New York: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973). 21 Erica Chenoweth and Maria J.

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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani
Published 20 Feb 2024

But the concept of the Overton window serves as a reminder that society is flexible, that there is hope, and that even the most impossible utopian ideas can one day become reality.” The work of countless grassroots groups in coordinating worldwide climate protests, the role that organizations like Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise Movement have played in raising public awareness, and the high-profile voices of young activists like Greta Thunberg—all have been credited with helping to make the climate crisis a priority in mainstream politics and increasing the vote share of Green Party candidates in European elections. The downside of the Overton window resembles old slippery slope arguments; that is, a series of incremental steps can lead to disaster, as people gradually become used to something thoroughly treacherous.

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Digital natives who grew up with smartphones, these young people have already demonstrated their skill at bringing activism into the internet age, using social media to organize demonstrations and boycotts, circulate petitions, and link to policy discussions and legislative calendars. In 2018, the Parkland students organized the huge March for Our Lives protests in just five weeks and, in doing so, reenergized a stalled gun control movement. It was also their determination and passion that inspired then-fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg to start a climate strike outside the Swedish parliament building later that year—which would help lead to the climate demonstrations of 2019, when some four million people turned out across the globe. In the coming decade, the journalist Ronald Brownstein observes, the electoral clout of millennials and Gen Zers will only increase, marking the “most profound generational transition since the early 1980s, when Baby Boomers became the largest voting bloc, dislodging the Greatest Generation of Americans, who came of age during the Depression and World War II.”

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

almost certainly fired by an Israeli soldier: Agence France-Presse, “Shireen Abu Aqleh Killed by ‘Seemingly Well-Aimed’ Israeli Bullet, UN Says,” The Guardian, June 24, 2022. “In many ways, nothing has really changed”: Angela Davis, interview by Alonzo King (audio recording), City Arts & Lectures, May 24, 2022. “Build back better. Blah, blah, blah”: “Greta Thunberg Mocks World Leaders in ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ Speech,” BBC News channel on YouTube, September 28, 2021, at 0:06–0:52. “They even succeeded in watering down”: “Greta Thunberg: ‘COP26 Even Watered Down the Blah, Blah, Blah,’” BBC News, November 15, 2021. “At some point you’d have to live”: Tamara Lindeman, “Loss,” on the album Ignorance (Fat Possum Records, 2021). 9. The Far Right Meets the Far-Out “World Wide Walkout”: Naomi Wolf, @DrNaomiRWolf, “#walkoutwednesday,” Gettr post, November 3, 2021.

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Angela Davis, in the spring of 2022, put the tension of the historic post–George Floyd protests like this: “In many ways, nothing has really changed at all, but at the same time, everything has changed.” Beyond Blah, Blah, Blah These are difficult themes to write and talk about, because all we have are those very same cheapened words. Which is why I greatly appreciated Greta Thunberg’s various interventions during the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow, which essentially consisted of making fun of people saying things about climate change while doing very little about climate change. The shaming took the form of her repeating, many times, the words “Blah, blah, blah.” It is worth recalling that Thunberg’s first protest was her refusal, as a young girl, to speak.

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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by Jason Hickel
Published 12 Aug 2020

If we refocused society around need rather than artificially-created wants — Jason sets out powerfully how distorted our lives are by advertising, reminding us that basically that is all that titans such as Facebook and Google are — we could recalibrate a world where together we could become more satisfied, and less separated. We need to make this change. We all know this. We cannot wait. We have to change systems if we are to stop the growth juggernaut from barrelling over us all. As XR’s greatest supporter, Greta Thunberg, most memorably put it, speaking earlier this year to global ‘elites’: ‘We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of endless economic growth. How dare you!’ We have to change systems not for any ideological reason, but simply because the emergency demands it.

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Those who call for a shift towards well-being as the sole solution tend to miss this point. If we want to release our society from the grip of the growth imperative, we have to be smarter than that. Five Pathways to a Post-Capitalist World We cannot save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Greta Thunberg Once we understand that we can flourish without growth, our horizons suddenly open up. It becomes possible to imagine a different kind of economy, and we’re free to think more rationally about how to respond to the climate emergency. It’s a bit like what happened during the Copernican Revolution.

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The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg
Published 14 Jun 2023

It is not the free world that has to become like China to beat China. It is the other way around. If China wants to ‘beat’ the free world, then China has to become free. 8 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PLANET? ‘We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!’ GRETA THUNBERG, AT THE UN’S CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT 2019 When I read In Defence of Global Capitalism again, I am struck by a startling oversight. I flip back and forth but find it nowhere. Where is climate change? I write about the environment, resources and emissions, but I do not address with one word what almost everyone today considers to be the most serious threat to our planet.

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A common line of argument is that the problem is the whole idea of an ever-growing economy with ever more planes and trucks ferrying people and goods across the continents around the clock. Leftists like Naomi Klein claim this is the inevitable result of global capitalism and ever-increasing production. But even a climate activist like Greta Thunberg complains that world leaders only talk about money and ‘some technical solutions’.2 This alludes to the widespread perception that we cannot rely on the growth and technology that have created the problems to solve them. Many greens want ‘degrowth’ and say we should consume less, travel less and settle for less to give the planet a chance.

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Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm
Published 2 Sep 2020

An electric car takes twice as much carbon to produce than a conventional one. My point is that this highlights just how unsustainable our lifestyles have become.[2] We are becoming addicted to a way of living in which flying is regarded as essential by many, and an aspiration for most. Even Greta Thunberg, in her noble efforts to get world leaders to take climate change seriously, had a support team flying backwards and forwards to the 2019 UN summit on climate change as she sailed in a ‘zero carbon’ yacht. They had, it was claimed, no option. Very few of us could afford the costs of Greta’s yacht.

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The simple fact is that the continuing growth of conventional shipping and world trade, and of airports and aviation, is incompatible with limiting climate change. Short of a technological transformation, and quickly, if climate change is to be mitigated, shipping and air travel will have to diminish. To see how the combination of fibre and communications technology and reducing transport demand works, consider the admirable case of Greta Thunberg sailing on a high-tech, low-carbon racing yacht to the UN conference in New York in September 2019. She decided not to fly. Good. She decided to go by a zero emissions boat. Good, but incredibly expensive for all but a small global elite. Why didn’t she just stay at home and engage with the UN conference delegates by video link?

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Uncharted: How to Map the Future
by Margaret Heffernan
Published 20 Feb 2020

A plethora of organisations determined to drive change and to support the traumatised and displaced. Widespread disagreement about tactics and priorities. Decentralised activism launching huge public actions. The willingness to disrupt and the courage to sacrifice time, effort and personal reputations. Emergent, unexpected leadership, in Iris Long and Greta Thunberg. All amid a crisis so large and terrifying that many institutions and individuals feel paralysed, preferring to turn a blind eye or hope that a miracle (or miracle worker) will spontaneously save the day. But there are further lessons to be taken from the AIDS crisis, lessons that apply to any existential crisis.

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Like the director general at CERN, or the leaders of backbone organisations, like Richard Hatchett or Sophie Howe, Oliver Burrows or Fiona Wilson, an effective leader’s principal asset isn’t power but the ability to make a better future feel possible, practical and meaningful. They will need the moral authority to be honest about sacrifices and they will have to resist the rhetorical allure of over-simplified fantasies. Where will they come from? From everywhere, identified by courage and energy or, like Iris Long in the AIDS fight or Greta Thunberg in the climate crisis, they may emerge unpredictably, living evidence of the huge impact of small surprises. Such leaders are characterised by rational optimism, a grounded belief in human capacity. They don’t accept that, as a leading psychologist put it, ‘We’ve seen the enemy and it’s us.’ They scoff at the goal proposed by a science technologist ‘to defeat mother nature’.

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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
by Devon Price
Published 4 Apr 2022

Percussionists were whipping drumsticks around; viola players were gossiping and laughing; violinists were tuning their instruments, filling the air with screeching, high-pitched peals. I coped by folding my arms tight across my chest and screwing a pissed-off expression onto my face. The grimacing, somewhat irritated expression that Autistic climate activist Greta Thunberg is now famous for[20] is very similar to how I used to react to loud noise and social chaos. I had already started to cultivate a grumpy, goth persona to protect me from seeming weak. Instead of showing that I was overwhelmed, my mask told other people to stay far away. Chris didn’t have that option.

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BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 17 https://southseattleemerald.com/2018/12/05/intersectionality-what-it-means-to-be-autistic-femme-and-black/. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 18 Chris’s name and some details have been changed to preserve his anonymity. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 19 https://truthout.org/articles/as-an-autistic-femme-i-love-greta-thunbergs-resting-autism-face/. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 20 Woods, R. (2017). Exploring how the social model of disability can be re-invigorated for autism: In response to Jonathan Levitt. Disability & Society, 32(7), 1090–1095. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 21 Chapter 4 Bellini, S. (2006).

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San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home
by Dk Eyewitness
Published 5 Apr 2023

After all, San Franciscans are used to the best of everything: scenery, what with the city being surrounded on three sides by glittering water and muscular mountains; food and drink, thanks to the bounty of local farms, orchards, and vineyards; even sustainability (the city’s green approach would make Greta Thunberg burst into applause). Not that it’s all plain sailing. The City by the Bay is no stranger to challenging times. Between earthquakes and dot-com crashes, residents have rebuilt the city several times over – and it always bounces back better than ever. And little wonder; pioneering is in the blood.

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San Francisco Like a Local
by DK Eyewitness
Published 4 Oct 2021

After all, San Franciscans are used to the best of everything: scenery, what with the city being surrounded on three sides by glittering water and muscular mountains; food and drink, thanks to the bounty of local farms, orchards, and vineyards; even sustainability (the city’s green approach would make Greta Thunberg burst into applause). Not that it’s all plain sailing. The City by the Bay is no stranger to challenging times. Between earthquakes and dot-com crashes, residents have rebuilt the city several times over. And it always bounces back better than ever. And little wonder; pioneering is in the blood.

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Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs
by Juli Berwald
Published 4 Apr 2022

But he’d also heard from a number of companies that he’d pitched the campaign to that coral already seemed like a lost cause. “We’re considering shifting our focus to highlight climate change,” he said of The Ocean Agency’s future direction. Just a month earlier, the world had been captivated by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish sixteen-year-old who had spoken with passion and anger before the United Nations, accusing the adults in the room of destroying her childhood and stealing her future. She said they had denied her a habitable planet in order to chase “the fairy tale of ever-expanding economic growth.”

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Ken Caldiera, one of the climate scientists in the conversation Andrew Revkin posted, included a clip from an old email he’d written: Economists estimate that it might cost something like 2% of our GDP to convert our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere as a waste dump. When we burn fossil fuels and release the CO2 into the atmosphere, we are saying “I am willing to impose tremendous climate risk on future generations living throughout the world, so that I personally can be 2% richer today.” As Greta Thunberg and tens of thousands showed us in the summer of 2019, teenagers have already heard that message loud and clear. And the ones I spoke to believed they deserved to know what the options were, even if these had intimidating names like geoengineering. * * * — After the Reef Futures meeting in Florida, I followed up with Dan Harrison about the Australian cloud-brightening program.

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Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference
by Alice Ross
Published 19 Nov 2020

According to analysts at UBS, 2019 was the year the world really woke up to climate change, following a report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) the previous year, which set out a stark difference in outcomes for people around the world even in the event of a 2 degrees change versus a 1.5 degrees change. This growing sense that climate change, far from being a niche concern, was the most important problem the world faced thrust it into the mainstream. Politicians and celebrities alike burnished their green credentials. New poster children for the movement emerged – literally, in the case of Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental activist who shot to fame at the age of just 15, having pioneered the movement for school students to strike over the climate in 2018, and who told attendees of the 2019 Davos summit that ‘our house is on fire’. Waking up to climate change in the investment world means looking to see where risks can be avoided and profits can be made.

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Angrynomics
by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth
Published 15 Jun 2020

I have suggested, for example, that using its existing TFS scheme (the UK’s equivalent of the ECB’s TLTROs), the Bank of England could make 5-year loans available to UK banks at −2 per cent fixed interest rates, contingent on these loans being extended to the private sector at negative rates to fund investments in decarbonization such as wind energy. Wind power already accounts for as much as 25 per cent of UK energy generation – why not target 50 per cent or 75 per cent? Dual interest rates turn recession and low inflation into a huge opportunity to finance a boom in sustainable energy. My beef with Greta Thunberg is not with her ambition – it’s with her fear. We can do this. It’s a complete myth that we lack the resources to overhaul our economies. In fact, the economic system is crying out for it. This dovetails nicely with our final policy proposal: an overhaul of fiscal policy. There are two aspects to this.

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The Passenger
by AA.VV.
Published 23 May 2022

Those who took to the stage beneath the spotlights of America’s most hypocritical city and – often with an award in their hands – proclaimed their desire to fight racism and social injustice, exhorting their colleagues and the public to step up their social and political commitment to inclusivity and equality; those who spoke out about the struggle against the patriarchy, sexism and abuses of power in what studies show is still the least inclusive and least diversified of any business sector in the USA, namely the film industry: Hollywood. “You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg ... So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your god and fuck off,” declared Gervais. Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro and all the rest ended up looking at the floor in a mixture of shock, embarrassment and (in some cases) a touch of indignation. So was he right? That same month the answer seemed to come from New York, shortly before another even bigger storm – the pandemic – crashed into the bastion of untruth in the Los Angeles Hills, forcing Hollywood directly into the open jaws of Netflix.

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Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
by Dave Rubin
Published 27 Apr 2020

Whether you’re a baby boomer addicted to watching cable news, a millennial hooked on Twitter conflict, or a zoomer who comes home from school fearing the end of the world because of climate change, I’m here to tell you to cool your jets. Psychologists have a word for this behavior: catastrophizing. When we catastrophize, we engage in an irrational thought process that leads us to believe something is far worse than it actually is. Take, for example, the remarks of sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, which she delivered angry and teary-eyed at the 2019 Climate Action Summit: “You have stolen my dreams and childhood with your empty words. . . . People are suffering. People are dying,” she pontificated. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairytales about economic growth.

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Re-Educated: Why It’s Never Too Late to Change Your Life
by Lucy Kellaway
Published 30 Jun 2021

Now that I’ve spent longer teaching there is another reason I try not to put ability labels on students: the word is too narrow. Last year I had a student called Desiree who, no matter how hard I tried to explain it, could not comprehend that the demand curve slopes downwards. One day I decided to stage a fake World Economic Forum press conference at Davos, and got my class to play Prince Charles, Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg. With some misgivings I gave Desiree the part of Trump, and found that although the simplest academic tasks defeated her, being President of the United States was well within her reach. Desiree electrified the class with a Trump-like contortion of her bottom lip and the way she pointed and shouted ‘Fake news!’

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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff
Published 7 Sep 2022

The world was changing, and environmentalists, union leaders, immigrants, and the anti-war movement were all coming to recognize global corporatism as the central cause of many of their complaints. Schwab responded by convening a trickle of panels at WEF’s conference at Davos about global warming and poverty in the global south. Even young climate activist Greta Thunberg was invited to Davos, twice. Her admonition that the assembled world leaders, corporate chiefs, and bankers not depend on carbon offsets and as-yet-uninvented technologies to solve climate change was ignored, twice. The headline that they let her speak at all was probably all they were looking for.

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Notes From an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
by Mark O'Connell
Published 13 Apr 2020

Classification: LCC GF86 .O36 2020 (print) | LCC GF86 (ebook) | DDC 613.6/9—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024066 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019024067 Ebook ISBN 9780385543019 ep_prh_5.5.0_c0_r0 For Amy, Mike, and Josephine 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. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. —Greta Thunberg These times of ours are ordinary times, a slice of life like any other. Who can bear to hear this, or who will consider it? —Annie Dillard CONTENTS Cover Also by Mark O’Connell Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph 1. Tribulations 2.

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
by Matthew Yglesias
Published 14 Sep 2020

The United States has some of the highest per capita emissions in the world, so more Americans equals more emissions, which is bad. But fundamentally this is too limited a way of looking at the climate problem. US per capita emissions are high, as are emissions in all rich countries, because from the way the contemporary world is structured, high living standards necessarily involve burning tons of fossil fuels. Greta Thunberg, after attracting incredible media attention for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a low-emissions way, thanked the people who helped her sail and then remarked that “we can’t require from everyone to rely on people like this to sail you across an ocean, that is absurd.” In other words, we can’t just ask people to give up the fruits of prosperity.

Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side
by Simon McCarthy-Jones
Published 12 Apr 2021

We need to support and inspire our young people to embrace struggles for prosocial causes, which need to be tied to sacred values. The young then need opportunities to fuse their identities with others engaged in the same endeavor. Movements such as Extinction Rebellion are already walking this path. Saving the planet has become a sacred cause, and thanks to people such as Greta Thunberg, there is a visible group to identify with. As part of this undertaking, we can harness our willingness to spite, harming our own short-term material interests and those of some corporations to promote the long-term interests of both us and our planet. We can bring altruism’s shady relative back to serve the light.

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The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World
by William Drozdiak
Published 27 Apr 2020

In other words, any Green Deal for Europe carries risks of further estrangement between East and West. Across much of Western Europe, the demands for radical measures to address the climate crisis are growing louder. The rise of Green political parties, riding a wave of enthusiastic support from young people such as the Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, who has mobilized millions of climate change activists around the world, is emerging as one of the strongest countervailing forces to right-wing populist nationalists. In the 2019 European elections, Green parties triumphed in the EU’s three biggest economies. Led by the soaring popularity of the Greens in Germany, pro-environment parties performed strongly across much of Northern and Western Europe.

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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by Cathy O'Neil
Published 15 Mar 2022

The restaurateurs fought against it with their only weapon at hand, punching-up shame. * * * Kids are the very best shamers—in part because it’s so much harder to accuse them of incivility. They embody innocence and hope, and they rarely have any skin in the game, whether power or money, so their motives are pure. They have only their values. A perfect example is Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who in 2018 launched a solitary campaign to shame polluters and save the planet from global warming. She mobilized student strikes around the globe. Attempts to shame her, including mocking tweets from the White House and efforts to graft her image onto pornography, fell flat and made those doing it look desperate and immoral.

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The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism
by Hubert Joly
Published 14 Jun 2021

Mass protests had broken out in Lebanon, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and elsewhere. Unrest over the economy and, more generally, growing inequality was feeding a global wave of populism while demands for more action on climate change inspired a rising tide of protests around the world, led by younger generations rallying behind Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg. Around the dinner table, my children talked about how excessive consumerism and waste was contributing to global warming. They pointed out that young professionals in their generation were turning to start-ups in search of inspiration and fulfillment at work because they were disillusioned with large traditional employers.

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Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business
by Alan Murray
Published 15 Dec 2022

His panel included such luminaries as anthropologist Jane Goodall, musicians and philanthropists Bono and will.i.am, Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres, and CEO of Sompo Holdings Kengo Sakurada. In the audience was a sixteen-year-old Swedish activist named Greta Thunberg. “When I asked her to say a few words,” Benioff wrote, “little did I know she would outshine everyone in this room full of star power the moment she shyly took the microphone from me.”13 Thunberg proceeded to direct a scathing verdict on who was to blame for the climate crisis. “Some people, some companies, some decision-makers in particular have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money, and I think many of you here today belong to that group of people,” she charged.

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Transport for Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet?
by Pete Dyson and Rory Sutherland
Published 15 Jan 2021

In the eighteenth century the Portuguese embassy in Rome organized a theatre production: free for Portuguese citizens but with an entry fee for all other nationalities. Some cheeky Romans masqueraded as Portuguese to get free entry – and the name stuck.6 Flygskam is a word from Sweden, home of Greta Thunberg, that literally means ‘flight shame’. Passenger numbers at Sweden’s ten busiest airports decreased by 5% in the summer of 2019 compared with the year before.7 In the same period, train use increased by 1.5 million journeys, meaning that we could add tågskryt, or ‘train brag’, to our lexicon as well.

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Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists
by Julia Ebner
Published 20 Feb 2020

The German anti-fascist Amadeu Antonio Foundation called this ‘management of indignation’.34 The opportunities offered by livestream rebellion can take positive shape, such as the solidarity marches of #jesuischarlies and #noussommesunis in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan terrorist attacks in Paris. the#FridaysForFuture movement led by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is another example of such positive online mobilisation. But they can also lead to hateful and potentially violent riots against perceived enemies. The global far right’s ultimate goal is to galvanise young people online into joining their ‘resistance’ against globalism and liberalism. To do so they build armies of tech-savvy and social-media-savvy agents of change who might set the scene for a dramatic tipping point in redesigning the political systems and power relations in both Europe and the US.

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The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent
by Ben Shapiro
Published 26 Jul 2021

William Nordhaus, for example, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on climate change, has suggested that people ought to accept that a certain amount of global warming is baked into the cake, and that we will be able to adapt to it—but that we ought to work on curbing global warming outside of that range.22 Experts in The ScienceTM, however, have no problem proposing radical solutions to climate change that just coincidentally happen to align perfectly with left-wing political recommendations. Those who disagree are quickly slandered as “climate deniers,” no matter their acceptance of IPCC climate change estimates. Thus the media trot out Greta Thunberg, a scientifically unqualified teenaged climate activist who travels the world obnoxiously lecturing adults about their lack of commitment to curbing climate change, as an expert; they ignore actual scientific voices on climate change. After all, as Paul Krugman of The New York Times writes, “there are almost no good-faith climate-change deniers . . . when failure to act on the science may have terrible consequences, denial is, as I said, depraved.”

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The Startup Wife
by Tahmima Anam
Published 2 Jun 2021

And no one cares about our politics. They just pay full attention to Cyrus, who tells story after story of the platform, the Viking death rituals, the Wonder Woman prayer circle in Madras, the Bhagavad Gita recital group in Dallas, the little cluster of communities that have formed around the worship of living people, Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Malala Yousafzai. What would Greta/Margaret/Malala do? These are the things the WAIs ask themselves. They do not want to try the latest skin-firming cream, they are not interested in celebrity gossip. They do not bow to influencers because we don’t give them any. They are the curious, the wondering and wandering, hungering for connection, searching for meaning.

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The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 9 Sep 2019

mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 (accessed February 5, 2019). 15. Damian Carrington, “School Climate Strikes: 1.4 Million People Took Part, Say Campaigners,” The Guardian, March 19, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/19/school-climate-strikes-more-than-1-million-took-part-say-campaigners-greta-thunberg (accessed March 20, 2019). 16. Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis—Version 12.0, 2018, https://www.lazard.com/media/450784/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-120-vfinal.pdf (accessed March 12, 2019); Naureen S. Malik, “Wind and Solar Costs Keep Falling, Squeezing Nuke, Coal Plants,” Bloomberg Quint, November 8, 2018, https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/wind-and-solar-costs-keep-falling-squeezing-nuke-coal-plants (accessed March 12, 2019). 17.

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The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan
Published 8 Aug 2020

Governance problems in capitalist economies Governance scores Government bonds, regulatory preference for Government-owned banks GPS GPs Gratton, L. Great demographic reversal Great Depression Great Financial Crisis (GFC) ‘Great Moderation’ Great Reversal Great Reversal of Demography and Globalisation Greece Green, Damian Greta (Thunberg) Growing corporate monopolisation Growth Growth, declining Growth, determined of real interest rate Growth, probable deceleration of Growth economies, now facing demographic headwinds Growth (g) relative to real interest rates (r) Growth model, consumption based Growth rate, underlying sustainable rate of (g*) Guangzhou Guatemala Guilds Gulf Gutiérrez, G.

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The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet
by Arthur Turrell
Published 2 Aug 2021

Simply put, Mark and the other star builders want to stop the human-caused climate change that is tipping the planet into a new and dangerous phase. Climate change threatens our way of life, especially our most vulnerable people. That’s the A-side; the B-side features the related challenges of pollution and habitat destruction. There’s clamor for change—though, so far, not a lot of concrete progress. Teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is touring the world telling politicians and officials to do more. In the UK, the Extinction Rebellion movement has protested by blocking streets and gluing themselves to government buildings. They want net zero carbon emissions by 2025. In the US, Democrats have campaigned for a Green New Deal that includes a commitment to net zero by 2030.

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Badvertising
by Andrew Simms

Ending advertising for flights today could see a huge and rapid reduction in emissions from air travel, starting tomorrow. * * * Growing public disquiet about the environmental damage caused by air travel has not gone unnoticed by the aviation industry. The coining of a new word – Flygskam, meaning ‘flight shame’ – in Sweden in 2019, against a backdrop of mass global climate protests led by Greta Thunberg, sent a ripple of panic through airline boardrooms, as it was accompanied by a sudden drop in flights, especially domestic flights, at Swedish and German airports.28 Incidentally, another term began to be heard in Sweden at the same time: Tågskryt, meaning ‘train brag’, concerning all the people making the conscious choice to travel by train instead of plane.

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The Lost Decade: 2010–2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
by Polly Toynbee and David Walker
Published 3 Mar 2020

Climate Crisis The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned starkly that from 2019, there were only eleven years left in which a programme to limit global warming to 1.5°C might succeed. Tipping points are visible in the form of melting glaciers, shrinking ice packs, lethal and unpredictable flooding, droughts and forest fires, from California to Australia, Africa to the Amazon. ‘Our house is burning,’ was environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s message. The joint endeavour of households, business and the state urgently has to alter how we drive, how we build and heat our homes, as well as our eating habits, water use, air travel and more. In places, and in patches, the work has begun. Take one example: in September 2018 the Highways Agency and local authority began upgrading a three-kilometre stretch of the A421 into Milton Keynes.

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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
by Phoebe Robinson
Published 14 Oct 2021

I mean, they treated an all-expenses-paid trip to meet Michelle Obama like it was an offer to shovel cow dung on Old McDonald’s farm, so you’re foolin’ yourself if you think my parents will view hanging out with you as anything other than precious time they could spend driving to and from a Redbox kiosk to rent a DVD. Yes, my brother hooked them up with a Netflix account. Yes, I got them HBO Max. Yes, they pay for Hulu. But apparently, it’s not enough and they need to waste gas and pollute the planet so they can get the latest direct-to-video John Cena movie. Honestly, I wanna tell on them to Greta Thunberg so she can give them a stern talking-to about how they’re contributing to climate change, so they will stop going to Redbox to rent wack movies. But I digress. The point is my parents are delightful and you will never meet them, so the next best thing is me sharing three key facts that’ll give you deep insight into Phillip and Octavia Robinson.

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100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation
by Frank Furedi
Published 6 Sep 2021

Writing in 1942, one of America’s leading social scientists, Talcott Parsons, indicated that ‘a tendency to the romantic idealization of youth patterns seems in different ways to be characteristic of modern Western society as a whole’.4 His point was echoed in the early 1960s, when a social scientist remarked; ‘Yet we still share with the ancient Greeks the wish that “youth should not be spoiled by old age.” We try to stay young.’5 In the 21st century the romantic idealisation of youth has acquired unprecedented momentum. The media’s sanctification of Greta Thunberg is underwritten by the claim that the young are putting right the problems created by their parents’ generation. The sentimentalisation of youth developed in parallel with growing scepticism directed at the ways of the older generations. At the turn of the 20th century it appeared to many that the ways of the old were fast being displaced by rapid social, technological and cultural change.

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben
Published 15 Apr 2019

Thousands in kayaks—“kayaktivists,” of course—helped persuade Shell it didn’t really want to drill in the Arctic; dozens of states and countries have now banned fracking; and some have gone so far as to stop new oil and gas exploration. It’s a movement now, and one increasingly led by kids, indigenous nations, communities of color. In the fall of 2018, a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg staged a “school strike,” sitting on the steps of Parliament instead of going to class on the theory that she couldn’t be bothered if the government couldn’t be bothered to care about the climate. Her action galvanized sentiment across northern Europe, and on the other side of the globe, Australian schoolchildren were soon on strike, too, and occupying the foyer of their Parliament.

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Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson
Published 27 Apr 2020

But she took the trouble to meet with everyone she could, seeking to understand how focusing on sustainability could help the company as a whole and trying to ensure that everything she did solved a problem for one of her colleagues. Within a few years she was able to spearhead a major shift in how the company measured and managed itself. Greta Thunberg was a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl when she began protesting climate change outside the Swedish Parliament. If it’s really a climate emergency, she said, why aren’t we doing anything? A year later an estimated 1.6 million students from 125 countries left school to join a global climate strike.

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The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It
by Stuart Maconie
Published 5 Mar 2020

‘It’s a tough thing to be asked to do,’ said presenter Joanna Gosling, which invited the question ‘Then why ask them to do it?’ All over the country these past few years, I’ve been to festivals and events where smart, informed, impassioned young people are making their case and engaging with politics. Some within the BBC clearly think young people are more Vicky Pollard than Greta Thunberg and live in terror of being thought ‘bo-ring’. As I write, Radio 4’s attempts to make itself more youth-friendly are highly contentious within that network. Producers joke that it can only be a matter of time before Stormzy is presenting Gardener’s Question Time. There’s another rub too, another danger in courting youth.

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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---And Prevented Economic Disaster
by Nick Timiraos
Published 1 Mar 2022

Chapter Seven INTO THE EMERGENCY ROOM Every January, heads of state mingle with the titans of finance and industry in the Swiss alpine ski resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum’s series of highfalutin, invitation-only seminars, meetings, and parties. As it has swelled in influence, the event has grown to attract celebrities and activists as well. In 2020, for example, central players such as European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde and financier George Soros were joined by climate activist Greta Thunberg and Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, an ambassador for mental health. The Big Idea in 2020 was “stakeholder capitalism,” featuring seminars on gender parity and the technological arms race. During a dinner-panel discussion on January 23, 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spoke up during a discussion on climate change and trade.

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Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by Peter Geoghegan
Published 2 Jan 2020

.‡ In the run-up to the 2019 British general election, Green Party activists in a number of swing constituencies in England noticed something unusual on Facebook. Paid-for adverts had started appearing, calling on voters to “support your local Green candidate”. The ads, illustrated with a photograph of fresh-faced climate activist Greta Thunberg, were not posted by the Greens. They had been bought by Thomas Borwick in the name of a company he owned called 3rd Party Ltd.55 (One Twitter user joked that the name Plausible Deniability must have already been taken.) Why was the deputy chairman of a local Conservative association buying ads in support of the Greens?

Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
by Temple Grandin, Ph.d.
Published 11 Oct 2022

Steve Silberman, in his book NeuroTribes, argues that neurodiversity should be viewed as different operating systems instead of through diagnostic labels. He writes, “The kids formerly ridiculed as nerds and brainiacs have grown up to become the architects of our future.” Another unlikely person who has recently captured the world’s attention is a single-minded young girl from Stockholm with Asperger’s. Greta Thunberg’s monotone delivery and limited eye contact would not suggest a person with the ability to transfix the world and motivate a new generation of climate activists, but Thunberg calls her difference her superpower. When I talk to autism groups, I like to share one of my favorite scientific papers, “Solitary Mammals Provide an Animal Model for Autism Spectrum Disorders” by J.

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The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Published 6 Oct 2021

The chapter entitled ‘Johnny’ begins, ‘I would like to tell about the man, the strange contradictory and controversial person; childish and good-humoured, sophisticated and savage, brilliantly clever yet with a very limited, almost primitive lack of ability to handle his emotions – an enigma of nature that will have to remain unresolved.’111 Epilogue: The Man from Which Future? ‘For Von Neumann the road to success was a many-laned highway with little traffic and no speed limit.’ Clay Blair Jr, 1957 ‘I am here to say, our house is on fire.’ Greta Thunberg, 2019 Over lunch in Los Alamos in 1950, Enrico Fermi suddenly asked his friends, ‘But where is everybody?’ Everyone burst out laughing. Fermi had been thumbing through a copy of the New Yorker and come across a cartoon blaming the recent disappearances of dustbins on extra-terrestrials. The ‘Fermi Paradox’ is the name now given to the conundrum of why the human race has not made contact with any alien species despite some estimates suggesting they should be legion in our galaxy.

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Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal
Published 22 Mar 2022

“What really stood out was one rite they came up with,” Dylan told me. “It was the most popular idea by far. They agreed the most significant rite of passage for teens of the future would be the first time you personally, directly experienced a devastating consequence of climate change. This was still two years before Greta Thunberg and three years before the school strikes for climate. It was definitely a strong early signal of that movement.” For us at the institute, this tiny experiment planted a seed for bigger possible action in the future. We’ve started creating more youth trainings and including teens in more of our future workshops.

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The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz
Published 13 May 2020

What is encouraging is that I have found in my interviews with young adults – the generation born between 1994 and 2004 that I have called Generation K, whose lives have been documented by digital cameras since birth, and are entering secondary school and university with the spectre of doxxing and leaked nude images hanging over their heads – that many are extremely cognisant of the flaws and indeed the dangers of their so-called ‘native’ digital territory, perhaps even more so than their elders. As Generation K makes a name for itself in activism – from Greta Thunberg to Malala Yousafzai to the survivors of the Parkland shooting who rallied more than a million people worldwide in protest of gun violence – perhaps they will also lead the charge when it comes to holding social media to account and recognising the profound dangers of tech addiction. CHAPTER SEVEN Alone at the Office Forty per cent.

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Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
by Scott Barry Kaufman
Published 6 Apr 2020

—Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (1959) Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends, and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people. Greta Thunberg, seventeen-year-old autistic climate change activist18 In the 2010 documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, filmmaker Werner Herzog and his camera crew take the viewer on a remarkable tour of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Named for one of its 1994 discoverers, Jean-Marie Chauvet, the Chauvet Cave contains some of the best-preserved paintings ever unearthed, dating to 32,000 years ago.

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Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire
by Brad Stone
Published 10 May 2021

Jeff Bezos and his global empire appeared, at least in the moment, totally unbound from the laws of corporate gravity that slowed the growth of large enterprises, inhibited their agility, and clouded the judgment of senior leaders with exorbitant wealth. New obstacles appeared, of course, but Amazon swiftly navigated those as well. On September 20, 2019, thousands of Amazon employees left their desks to join technology workers and students from around the world in a general climate strike organized by the teenage activist Greta Thunberg. In Seattle, they gathered in front of the Spheres at 11:30 a.m., holding signs that read, “Amazon, Let’s Raise the Bar, Not the Temperature,” and “No AWS for Oil and Gas,” while arguing that the company had to rethink its devotion to greater selection, faster shipping, and delighting customers, regardless of the environmental cost.

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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
by Brett Christophers
Published 12 Mar 2024

At the time of this writing, however, the facility remains standing and continues to generate power, because the Norwegian government has not followed up on the court’s decision – it appears to be hopeful that it can find mitigating measures, and thus an updated license that is not in breach of Sámi rights. See R. Milne, ‘Greta Thunberg Accuses Norway of “Green Colonialism” over Wind Farm’, Financial Times, 27 February 2023. 2 J. Starn, ‘Statkraft, Credit Suisse Fund to Invest $1.2 Billion in Wind’, 23 February 2016, bloomberg.com. 3 ‘Google Teams Up with Norway’s Largest Wind Park’, 30 June 2016, thelocal.no. 4 J. Ambrose, ‘UK Universities in Landmark Deal to Buy Energy Direct from Windfarms’, Guardian, 7 October 2019. 5 M.