School Strike for Climate

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

All political movements in their present form have done so. And the media has failed to create broad public awareness.1 These were the words from Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike 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 to give the world a hard wake-up call on the actions needed to avert catastrophe. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope,’” she said at a special press conference.

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Her call to action fell on deaf ears. Thunberg decided to go forward by herself. One day in late August 2018, she skipped school, and 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 accounts amplified her cause,” according to later research by Wired.6 A couple of influential environmentalists shared her online posts, the magazine wrote, and by the next morning, Thunberg had her first follower, fellow 15-year old Mayson Persson.

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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?

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

All political movements in their present form have done so. And the media has failed to create broad public awareness.1 These were the words from Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist, as she spoke in Davos at our Annual Meeting in January 2019. Thunberg had become known for her School Strike 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 to give the world a hard wake-up call on the actions needed to avert catastrophe. “Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope,’” she said at a special press conference.

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Her call to action fell on deaf ears. Thunberg decided to go forward by herself. One day in late August 2018, she skipped school, and 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 accounts amplified her cause,” according to later research by Wired.6 A couple of influential environmentalists shared her online posts, the magazine wrote, and by the next morning, Thunberg had her first follower, fellow 15-year old Mayson Persson.

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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?

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx
Published 4 Jul 2022

In the United States, the Green New Deal galvanized climate activists to fight for an ambitious program to address the climate crisis, while empowering them to collectively imagine what an equitable and sustainable 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 communities and change national policy. In the Global North, Indigenous communities have been engaged in increasingly high-profile fights against extraction projects, and they are not alone.

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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

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. Two months later, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report stating that, without major steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth’s temperature would increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius between 2030 and 2052, causing extreme weather events unlike anything we’d ever seen before.9 Emboldened by Greta, and alarmed by the IPCC report, teenagers around the world were inspired to participate in Fridays for Future, the international coalition started by Greta and other students.

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

As a result, many customers switched back to Netflix, which continued to grow in 2008 as they launched partnerships with Roku and Xbox to stream their services. Blockbuster moved to closed down its remaining stores in 2013. Meanwhile, Netflix “announced that it had thirty-one million subscribers in the United States, three million more than HBO, and that its stock was at an all-time high.” Greta Thunberg holds a school strike for climate sign outside the Swedish Parliament. In 2020, twenty years after the two CEOs had first met, there is only one remaining Blockbuster store operating in the United States. Despite the failure of his decision not to acquire Netflix in 2000, Antioco was no fool. Shrewdly, in 2011, after leaving Blockbuster and observing the company under new leadership, he sold his Blockbuster stock and purchased a mass of Netflix shares.

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

—Greta Thunberg, 22 April 2019 One day in August 2018, a schoolgirl in Sweden started a school strike. At first it was hardly a strike. It was only her. Her parents tried to stop her, 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 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.

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

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.

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

“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. I recently taught my first “youth only” session of the How to Think Like a Futurist training, to thirty teenagers from across California who were nominated as leaders in their community.