{"id":7968,"date":"2019-07-01T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2019-09-24T08:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T12:58:23","slug":"greta-thunberg-climate-change-is-coming-whether-we-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2019\/07\/01\/greta-thunberg-climate-change-is-coming-whether-we-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg: Change is Coming Whether We Like it or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judy Koren
\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greta Thunberg\u2019s unapologetic and fierce commitment for climate justice began when she was only nine years old. The New Yorker<\/a> quoted Greta, saying, \u201cthey were always talking about how we should turn off lights, save water, not throw out food.\u201d She continued, \u201cI asked why and they explained about climate change. And I thought this was very strange. If humans could really change the climate, everyone would be talking about it and people wouldn\u2019t be talking about anything else. But this wasn\u2019t happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greta\u2019s movement began when she was 15 years old outside the Swedish parliament building. Before a parliamentary election on September 9, she did not attend school for three weeks. Instead, Greta sat in front of the parliament building in protest for a radical response to climate change. After the elections, Greta began going to school, but only four days a week. Each Friday, Greta sat in front of the parliament building, which is an action that inspired millions of students all over the globe to participate in \u201cFridays for Future.\u201d According to Fridays for Future<\/a> website, there have been 4,593 documented marches in 154 countries around the globe.<\/p>\n

Greta grew up in Sweden, a country regarded as a model for environmental sustainability and activism to many people from all over the world. Greta, on the other hand, does not view Sweden in the same light. In August 2018, Greta was interviewed by We Don\u2019t Have Time, a social network for climate action for the Twitter-owned site, Medium<\/a>. The title, \u201cSweden is not a role model,\u201d argues what Sweden prides itself on, as The New Yorker writes, the \u201cmost progressive climate legislation in the world.\u201d Meanwhile, Greta watched a debate between party leaders where they said it \u201cmade no sense\u201d to curb Sweden\u2019s emissions, \u201csince [they] were such a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greta cannot not understand how the party leaders were able to lie, and emphasized that Sweden is not a role model. In fact, according to the World Wildlife Fund for Nature, Sweden emits 11 tons of carbon dioxide per capita every year, ranking eighth in the world for emissions. Greta claims, \u201cWe\u2019re the ones who need help.\u201d Among other bold comments, Greta offers a reminder that when people think of \u201cthe future,\u201d it does not go beyond 2050. By then, she will not have lived half of her life.<\/p>\n

The New Yorker noted that for six years, Greta researched the climate crisis. As revealed in her TEDx<\/a> talk in Stockholm, Greta was diagnosed with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and selective mutism at 11 years old. She attributes her \u201cuncanny ability to concentrate\u201d to her autism. Greta highlights that she \u201csee[s] the world a bit different, from another perspective.\u201d In fact, her autism serves as a \u201cdual purpose;” Greta believes that \u201c[her movement] not only calls attention to climate policy, but it showcases the political potential of neurological difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TEDx talk allowed for Greta to have a platform that reveals her thoughts about the global climate crisis through the eyes of someone on the autism spectrum. \u201cEverything is black or white,\u201d Greta says, for those with autism. Unlike what society dubs as the \u201cnormal\u201d people, who see the gray areas, Greta believes this makes the \u201cnormal\u201d the strange ones. When Greta discovered the severity of the global climate crisis, she emphasized, \u201cno one even mentions it.\u201d As this generation lives through the sixth mass extinction, Greta does not understand how it is rarely spoken of, given that this is the norm of the global majority. This serves Greta\u2019s idea that those \u201con the spectrum\u201d who see in black or white are in fact the normal ones.<\/p>\n

Just four months after her first strike on the steps of the Swedish Parliament building, Greta impressed audience members, which included COP24 President, Michal Kurtyka and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa, as she addressed the COP24<\/a> plenary session, the 24th conference of Parties to the UNFCCC for two weeks, in Katowice, Poland. With videos on Instagram posted by activists such as Leonardo DiCaprio and coverage from major global news networks like CNN, the speech sent Greta and her fight for climate justice viral.<\/p>\n

Greta addressed world leaders and distinguished guests very directly, beginning with, \u201cyou only speak of green eternal economic growth because you are too scared to be unpopular.\u201d Throughout the entirety of her address, she remained calm, only raising her voice a few times. At COP24, some negotiations reacheded an agreement, but others were reportedly tabled until next year, at COP25 in Chile.<\/p>\n

Greta continued, adding, \u201cYou are not mature enough to tell it like it is,\u201d and suggested there is no hope \u201cuntil you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible.\u201d She predicted they will ignore those who advocate for climate justice again in the future, as they are doing now. Ending this viral address, Greta fiercely stated that change is coming \u201cwhether you like it or not,\u201d and that the \u201creal power belongs to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days earlier in Katowice, Greta made a smaller address seated between the United Nations Secretary General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa. The speech, posted on the Friday\u2019s For Future<\/a> website, points particularly to failures of global political leaders. In fact, as Greta promised to motivate others to effect change where change is necessary, she deemed the behavior of global leaders as \u201cchildlike.\u201d She questioned the global pact towards climate justice, wondering how it is possible to expect countries like India, Colombia, or Nigeria \u201cto care about the climate crisis if we, who already have everything, don\u2019t care even a second about our actual commitments to the Paris Agreement?\u201d Throughout different public addresses, Greta has one common theme: questioning the capability of political leaders to create change, and ensuring that younger generations can make the change that current global leaders see as politically impossible.<\/p>\n

After lobbying for climate justice and equity for just seven months, news broke that Greta Thunberg was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Time<\/a> reported that this nomination is in \u201crecognition of her work leading a youth campaign to halt climate change.\u201d This nomination comes after the release of TIME\u2019s Most Influential Teens of 2018;<\/a> Greta was named one of the 25 young influencers. Norwegian parliamentary representative Freddy Andre Oevstegaard was one of the three Norwegian lawmakers who submitted Greta\u2019s name. When asked why by Norwegian media outlet VG, the representative said the climate crisis \u201cmay be one of the most important causes of war and conflict.\u201d Oevstegaard continued, \u201cthe massive movement Greta has set in motion is a very important peace contribution.\u201d According to BBC<\/a>, if Greta were to win this prestigious honor, she would be the youngest recipient in Nobel history.<\/p>\n

Just one month after Greta was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, she gave one of her most emotional speeches yet. Posted to Fridays for Future<\/a>, the focus of her address in front of the European Union Parliament in Strasbourg was the comparison of Earth to a burning house. Greta urged everyone to \u201cpanic,\u201d and went on to detail the devastating impacts of human intervention on the environment due to climate change. The audience and viewers around the world saw a visible and powerful break in the strong 16 year old, who had been lobbying and advocating for climate justice and equity for less than a year.<\/p>\n

Greta used a burning house to symbolize the destruction of our earth in order to rationalize how rapid climate solutions should be carried out. Greta claimed that if it were someone\u2019s own house burning down, \u201cwe would not go on like we do today. You would change almost every part of your behavior, as you do in an emergency.\u201d Greta once again called out global leaders for their inaction and lack of care, pointing out that \u201cyou wouldn\u2019t hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate\u201d if anyone was serious about creating change. This immediately invoked an applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

Greta also highlighted that it is \u201c30 years too late\u201d for the celebrations of little change by pointing out the appraisal for Ireland and Norway and their new climate policies. Greta emphasized that these celebrations are not enough. In order to make sufficient change, we must \u201cmake the best available science at the heart of politics and democracy.\u201d This is imperative to enable voters to understand the climate crisis and mitigate its effects.<\/p>\n

BBC<\/a> covered Greta\u2019s impact on young people from Denver, Colorado to the Netherlands. Dubbed \u201cthe Greta Effect,\u201d Haven Coleman, 13 years old and the co-director of United States Youth Climate Strike, was inspired by Greta to risk her education and strike for climate justice. U.S. Youth Climate Strike is also directed by 16-year-old Isra Hirsi, daughter of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar. Coleman stated that she was invested in climate activism prior to the school strikes, but Greta\u2019s school strikes are what inspired her to begin the same movement in her own town.<\/p>\n

In the Netherlands, 11-year-old Lilly Platt is also taking a stand with Greta. According to BBC, Platt is more than ready for change. She stated, \u201cI\u2019m in the generation that has to suffer through this.\u201d Accompanied by her mother, Platt strikes on Fridays for an hour with permission from her school. In addition, she runs Lilly\u2019s Plastic Pick Up, a litter-picking campaign. Platt told BBC that \u201cinforming people about single-use plastic and how they can stop using it\u201d is the focus of her campaign.<\/p>\n

During her TEDx talk, Greta asked many questions that prompted shaking heads in the audience. The following question: \u201care we evil?\u201d was followed with silence. After a few long seconds, Greta responded with, \u201cno of course not.\u201d After six years of research and months of advocacy work, Greta believes the climate issue has become the new norm rather than a crisis because the \u201cvast majority doesn\u2019t have a clue about the actual consequences of our everyday life.\u201d In return, the rapid changes required are not possible.<\/p>\n

Afterall, Greta\u2019s message always comes back to the lack of attention surrounding the existential crisis. A major theme throughout her campaign and advocacy work is her utter confusion towards the lack of emphasis around the global crisis that threatens every species on the planet. Through it all, Greta believes the world needs both hope and action. Concluding her TEDx talk, Greta stated, \u201ceverything needs to change. And it has to start today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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