Greta Thunberg Wants You To Save The Children

Summary

Greta Thunberg urges everyone to join Fridays for Future and other initiatives to protect children from the impacts of climate change.

Abstract

Greta Thunberg and other climate activists have raised concerns about the world leaders' failure to protect children from the consequences of climate change. Over a billion children are at risk due to our dependence on fossil fuels, short-term profits, and the destruction of species and habitats. The impacts of climate change, such as floods, fires, and resource conflicts, are already causing harm to children, especially those in impoverished communities. To mitigate the worst effects of climate change, we need a revolution in human psychology and a shift towards clean energy, agriculture, and sustainable habits. Fridays for Future is one organization for youth, and older folks can join Fire Drill Fridays and support Great Big Green Week in September. We need to check our values and buy less, prioritizing durability and sustainability.

Opinions

The world leaders are failing to protect children from the impacts of climate change.
Our dependence on fossil fuels, short-term profits, and the destruction of species and habitats are putting over a billion children at risk.
The impacts of climate change are already causing harm to children, especially those in impoverished communities.
We need a revolution in human psychology to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
We need to shift towards clean energy, agriculture, and sustainable habits.
We need to check our values and prioritize durability and sustainability in our purchases.
Fridays for Future, Fire Drill Fridays, and Great Big Green Week are initiatives that can help protect children from the impacts of climate change.

Who loves their children?

Recently, Greta Thunberg and many other climate activists rightfully told a wide audience that the leaders of the world are failing the children of the world.

More than one billion children are at serious risk due to our addiction to fossil fuels, short-term profit, and vanishing species and habitats.

We all see the headlines daily, but do we really change our ways to think of the children? We hear of the floods, fires, refugees, resource conflicts, and politics that value existing life over lives yet to be lived in full. Many children already die each day, and the impoverished women and children of the world face the most punishing events.

Many children already born will live another eighty to ninety years. The IPCC, and millions of scientists, thinkers, engineers, activists, etc. have warned that we cannot escape warming and all of its dire consequences. However, we can mitigate the worst harms if we start now. If we stop extraction industries, invest in clean energy, agriculture, and habits, we save lives.

We save lives of the born, and the unborn. We save lives when we protect oceans, forests, streams, habitats, and more.

Nothing short of a revolution in human psychology is demanded.

Fridays for Future is just one organization for youth. Older folks can join Fire Drill Fridays, and spread the word about Great Big Green Week in September.

Most of all, check your values, and buy accordingly, which is to say buy less and buy durability. Support a non-disposable (not single use) Earth bound lifestyle if you value your children, or the planet too.

Are you really PRO life?

We hear so very often about activism for “pro-life” causes. For the planet we are counting on, (not Mars) we are neglecting actual life, biology, biosphere, and human lives (including children) on a daily basis.

UNICEF reports the staggering statistics about global emissions. Only one nation, India, is responsible for a large output of emissions and also a large number of endangered children at high risk. Impoverished nations have the highest numbers of imperiled children and also the lowest numbers of carbon pollution. Despite this, even developed nations endanger children who are caught — and killed — in overheating weather, floods, fires, and more secondary effects such as water-borne illness and poor air quality.

In the New York Times* guest essay, Greta Thunberg writes:

We are in a crisis of crises. A pollution crisis. A climate crisis. A children’s rights crisis. We will not allow the world to look away.

Let’s hope the children will give us hell. It’s what we are leaving to them.

Greta Thunberg Wants You To Save The Children

We all are creating the future; join Fridays for Future — and more — to help

Who loves their children?

Are you really PRO life?