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description: a global movement where students skip school to protest for action on climate change, inspired by Greta Thunberg

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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

future should look like. That challenge was taken up around the world under the Green New Deal banner, but also by activists with Extinction Rebellion, School Strike for Climate, and regional initiatives like the Pacto Ecosocial del Sur in Latin America. Meanwhile, at sites of extraction, residents are wielding their power to protect their

Cab Drivers Association, 110 San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, 163 Saskatchewan Transportation Company, 219 Sayona, 80 Schaller, Bruce, 98 Schifter, Douglas, 105 Schmidt, Eric, 228 School Strike for Climate, 225 scooters. See bicycles Seattle, WA, ride-hailing services in, 99 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 138 Sedran, Thomas, 129–30 self-checkout, 194–5

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

://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

Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today

by Jane McGonigal  · 22 Mar 2022  · 420pp  · 135,569 words

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

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  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

, but she persisted. She went and stood alone outside the parliament in Stockholm on a Friday holding a banner and began the Skolstrejk för Klimatet (School Strike for Climate). She returned the next Friday, and the Friday afterward. Initially her classmates were not interested in joining: “Passers-by expressed pity and bemusement at the

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

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

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike for Climate a few months earlier, shaking up the debate about what has increasingly become known as the global climate crisis. In Davos, she used the platform

went instead to Swedish parliament in Stockholm. Standing in the square outside, she held a self-made sign that simply read “Skolstrejk för Klimatet,” or “School Strike for Climate.” It was an odd sight, but it quickly gained attention. After Thunberg posted a photo of her strike on Twitter and Instagram, “other social media

://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

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SARS–CoV–2 vaccines, 248 SARS–CoV–2 virus. See COVID-19 pandemic Saudi Arabia, 64 School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua University), 225–226 School Strike for Climate (2918), 147, 148–149 Schroder, Gerhard, 80 Schumpeter, Joseph, 136 Schwab, Klaus, 85, 191 Scientific American, 42 Scientific Resolution (15th century), 101, 130 Second and

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business

by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro  · 30 Aug 2021  · 345pp  · 92,063 words

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

Risk: A User's Guide

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

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

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

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

Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike for Climate a few months earlier, shaking up the debate about what has increasingly become known as the global climate crisis. In Davos, she used the platform

went instead to Swedish parliament in Stockholm. Standing in the square outside, she held a self-made sign that simply read “Skolstrejk för Klimatet,” or “School Strike for Climate.” It was an odd sight, but it quickly gained attention. After Thunberg posted a photo of her strike on Twitter and Instagram, “other social media

://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

–150, 250 megatrends driving, 159–162 Paris Agreement (2015) on, 150, 165, 182, 183, 189, 198 reasons for lack of progress in fighting, 150–159 School Strike for Climate (2018), 147, 148–149 searching for solutions to, 165–168 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) [2015], 150 UN Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) on

SARS–CoV–2 vaccines, 248 SARS–CoV–2 virus. See COVID-19 pandemic Saudi Arabia, 64 School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua University), 225–226 School Strike for Climate (2918), 147, 148–149 Schroder, Gerhard, 80 Schumpeter, Joseph, 136 Schwab, Klaus, 85, 191 Scientific American, 42 Scientific Resolution (15th century), 101, 130 Second and