![]() ![]() Because to panic when your house is on fire is actually quite a logical thing to do, in the circumstances and our house is burning down. ![]() ‘I want you to panic’, she declares in the speech ‘Our House is On Fire’. What are a few missed lessons, she says, when almost nothing is being done to prevent an oncoming global catastrophe. ![]() She sat outside the Swedish Parliament and explained that she was refusing to go to school until politicians started taking climate change seriously. Thunberg made international headlines last year when she started a school strike in Sweden. At seventy pages, this little book collects the speeches that Thunberg has delivered in the past two years at climate protests, UN summits, and the British Parliament. That is most of the message of No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference, published last month by Penguin. That may sound like hyperbole but it isn’t. Climate change (or climate breakdown, catastrophe or emergency as we should probably be calling it) is the biggest threat that we currently face and not enough is being done about it. Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year old climate activist and winner of the Prix Liberté this year, doesn’t mince her words. Almost everything is black and white What we do, or don’t do, right now, will affect my entire life, and the lives of my grandchildren. ![]()
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