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GRETA THUNBERG

Greta Thunberg, 16, Swedish, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Vegan of the Year Award

Greta Thunberg is vegan for animals and the planet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

Honours and Awards

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/vegan-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-wins-prix-liberte - Greta Thunberg receives the prestigious Freedom Award, the Prix Liberte

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/greta-thunberg-alternative-nobel-climate-activism - Greta Thunberg Wins the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ For Her Climate Activism

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/greta-thunberg-celebrities-face-climate-crisis - The Goldene Kamera Award

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/greta-thunberg-gq-men-of-year-award - Honour given at "Men of the Year Awards"

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/vegan-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-nominated-nobel-peace-prize - Nobel Peace Prize nomination

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/09/greta-thunberg-and-fridays-for-future-receive-amnesty-internationals-top-honour/ - Greta Thunberg and Fridays for Future receive Amnesty International’s top honour

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News

https://meaww.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-lends-electric-car-greta-thunberg-drive-new-york-montreal-protest - Arnold Schwarzenegger lends his electric car to Greta Thunberg and her father to drive from New York to Montreal for the protest.

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/greta-thunberg-cover-time - Greta Thunberg on the cover of TIME Magazine: “Now I Am Speaking to the Whole World”

https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/vegan-environment-activist-greta-thunberg-pope-tackle-climate-change - Vegan Environment Activist Greta Thunberg asks the Pope to Tackle Climate Change

https://www.mtlblog.com/news/canada/qc/montreal/cell-service-has-crashed-as-a-result-of-the-montreal-climate-strike - Greta Thunberg sat alone on her protest in Sweden just one year ago, and now, over 500,000 people (27% of population) attended the protest for climate protection in Montreal which was led by Greta on 27/9/19 - https://www.mtlblog.com/news/canada/qc/montreal/montreal-climate-strike-heres-everything-you-need-to-know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPC6oC_5rU - Greta Thunberg and The 1975 - The group "The 1975" and Greta make a track together for their new 2019 album - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/25/time-to-rebel-greta-thunberg-makes-musical-debut-on-the-1975-track

Two New Books by Greta Thunberg

https://www.plantbasednews.org/opinion/review-no-one-too-small-make-difference-greta-thunberg

“No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference” by Greta Thunberg - A collection of her amazing speeches. In bookshops now - £2.99

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315194/our-house-is-on-fire/9780241419632.html

“Our House is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis” - Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg, Svante Thunberg. March 2020

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https://www.plantbasednews.org/news/vegan-greta-thunberg-made-parents-feel-guilty-eating-meat-dairy

GRETA'S SPEECHES

Greta Thunberg receives the Goldene Kamera Award!

Germany - 30th March 2019

Greta's speech

I dedicate this award to the people fighting to protect the Hambach Forest. And to activists everywhere who are fighting to keep the fossil fuels in the ground.

We live in a strange world. Where all the united science tells us that we are about 11 years away from setting off an irreversible chain reaction way beyond human control that will probably be the end of our civilization as we know it.

We live in a strange world where children must sacrifice their own education in order to protest against the destruction of their future.

Where the people who have contributed the least to this crisis are the ones who are going to be affected the most.

Where politicians say it’s too expensive to save the world, while spending trillions of euros subsidizing fossil fuels.

We live in a strange world where no one dares to look beyond our current political systems even though it’s clear that the answers we seek will not be found within the politics of today.

Where some people seem to be more concerned about the presence in school of some children than the future of humankind.

Where everyone can choose their own reality and buy their own truth.

Where our survival is depending on a small, rapidly disappearing carbon budget. And hardly anyone even knows it exists.

We live in a strange world. Where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.

Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Where celebrities, film and pop-stars who have stood up against all injustices will not stand up for our environment and for climate justice because that would inflict on their right to fly around the world visiting their favourite restaurants, beaches and yoga retreats.

Avoiding catastrophic climate breakdown is to do the seemingly impossible. And that is what we have to do.
But here is the truth: we can’t do it without you in the audience here tonight.

People see you celebrities as Gods. You influence billions of people. We need you.

You can use your voice to raise awareness about this global crisis. You can help turn individuals into movements. You can help us wake up our leaders - and let them know that our house is on fire.

We live in a strange world.

But it’s the world that my generation has been handed. It’s the only world we’ve got.

We are now standing at a crossroads in history.

We are failing but we have not yet failed.

We can still fix this.

It's up to us.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/24/greta-thunberg-general-strike-action-climate-change - Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change. Join the General Strike on 27 September 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/greta-thunberg-backs-general-strike-climate-change-environment - Greta Thunberg backs climate general strike to force leaders to act. Join the General Strike on 27 September 2019

https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/greta-speeches - Greta Thunberg speeches

Poland, 2018. 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24

“We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care. We Have Come to Let Them Know Change Is Coming. We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed”

"Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility that they should have taken long ago"

“While the world consumes an estimated 100 million barrels of oil each day. There are no politics to change that. There are no politics to keep that oil in the ground. So we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again. We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not. The people will rise to the challenge”

“You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake”

“You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children”

“And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself"

15 February 2019 - Greta Thunberg

With an even bigger global mobilisation planned for 15 March 2019, Greta feels the momentum is now building:

“I think enough people have realised just how absurd the situation is. We are in the middle of the biggest crisis in human history and basically nothing is being done to prevent it. I think what we are seeing is the beginning of great changes, and that is very hopeful”

Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2019/mar/15/climate-strikes-2019-live-latest-climate-change-global-warming?fbclid=IwAR1i0bQm1pEM0_qs3XMDwEV-9ZAngDiZXvUqfrJt7bQ3AcSGNeCT9em2yZE - 1.5 million children attended the 15^th March 2019 School Climate Strike, in 152 countries!

1.6 million children attended the April 12th 2019 School Climate Strike.

Greta Thunberg’s Address

“Tens of thousands of children are school striking for the climate on the streets of Brussels. Hundreds of thousands are doing the same all over the world. And some are here today.

“We are school striking because we have done our homework. People always tell us that they are so hopeful. They are hopeful that the young people are going to save the world. But we are not.

“There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge. Because by the year 2020, we need to have bended the emissions curve steep downwards. That is next year.

“We know that most politicians don’t want to talk to us. Good. We don’t want to talk to them either. We want them to talk to the scientists instead. Listen to them. Because we are just repeating what they are saying and have been saying for decades. We want you to follow the Paris Agreement and the IPCC reports. We don’t have any other manifests or demands. Just unite behind the science, that is our demand.

“When many politicians talk about the school strikes for climate, they talk about almost anything except for the climate crisis. Many people are trying to making the school strikes a question of whether we should go back to school or not. They make up all sorts of conspiracies and call us puppets who can’t think for themselves.

“They are desperate to remove the focus from the climate crisis and change the subject. They don’t want to talk about it because they know they can’t win this fight. Because they know they haven’t done their homework. But we have.

“Once you have done your homework, you realise that we need new politics. We need new economics where everything is based on our rapidly declining and extremely limited remaining carbon budget.

“But that is not enough. We need a whole new way of thinking. The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can because all that matters is to win to get power.

“That must come to an end. We must stop competing with each other. We need to cooperate, and work together to share the resources of the planet in a fair way.

“We need to start living within the planetary boundaries, focus on equity and take a few steps back, for the sake of all living species. We need to protect the biospehere, the air, the oceans, the soil, the forests.

“This may sound very naïve but if you have done your homework, then you know that we don’t have any other choice. We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change. Because if we fail to do so, then all of our achievements and progress will be for nothing. And all that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure of human history. And they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time because they have chosen not to listen and not to act.

“But this does not have to be. There is still time. According to the IPCC report, we are about 11 years away from being in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control.

“To avoid that, unprecedented changes have to take place within this coming decade. Including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50% by year 2030. And please note that those numbers don’t include the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris Agreement work on a global scale. Nor do they include tipping points or feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas released from the thawing arctic permafrost. They do however include negative emission techniques on a huge planetary scale that is yet to be invented, and that many scientists fear will never be ready in time and will anyway be impossible to deliver at the scale assumed.

“We have been told that the EU need intends to improve its emissions reduction target. In the new target, the EU is proposing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 45% below 1990 levels by 2030. Some people say that is good or ambitious. But this new target is still not enough to keep global warming below 1.5°C. This target is not sufficient to protect the future of children growing up today.

“If the EU is to make its fair contribution to stay within the carbon budget for the 2°C limit, then it needs a minimum of 80% reduction by 2030. And that includes aviation and shipping. So about twice as much as the current proposal.

“The actions required are beyond manifestos or party politics. Once again, politicians sweep their mess under the carpet for our generation to clean up and solve.

“Some people say that we are fighting for our future. But that is not true. We are fighting for everyone’s future. And if you think that we should be in school instead, then we suggest you take our place in the streets, striking from your work. Or better yet, join us so we can speed up the process.

“And I’m sorry, but saying everything will be alright while continue doing nothing at all is just not hopeful to us. In fact, it is the opposite of hope. And yet, this is exactly what you keep doing. You can’t just sit around waiting for hope to come. Then you are acting like spoiled irresponsible children.

“You don’t seem to understand that hope is something that you have to earn. And if you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time, then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted decades through denial and inaction. And since our time is running out we have started taking action.

“We have started cleaning up your mess and we won’t stop until we are done. Thank you.”

21 April 2019, Marble Arch, London, UK

Greta Thunberg Delivered a Powerful Speech at Extinction Rebellion's Massive Climate Demonstration

I come from Sweden, and back there it’s almost the same problem as here, as everywhere, that nothing is being done to stop an ecological crisis despite all the beautiful words and promises.

We are now facing an existential crisis, the climate crisis and ecological crisis which have never been treated as crises before. They have been ignored for decades.

And for way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything. We will make sure that politician’s will not get away with it for any longer.

Humanity is now standing at a crossroads.

We must now decide which path we want to take.

We have gathered today because we have chosen which path we want to take, and now we are waiting for the others to follow our example. We are the ones making a difference. We the people in this Extinction Rebellion and the children's school strike for the climate — we are the ones making a difference.

It shouldn’t be like that, but since no one else is doing anything, we will have to do so.

We will never stop fighting for this planet, for our futures, and for the futures of our children and grandchildren.

i-D is a British bimonthly magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art, and youth culture. The 'Voice of a Generation' issue features an interview with Greta Thunberg who is on the cover of the summer 2019 issue.

An existential crisis is a moment at which an individual questions if their life has meaning, purpose, or value.

While ever we exploit animals, nature, and the Holy Mother Earth, we will feel, at some level of consciousness, that we are unworthy. It is this exploitative attitude towards all life which is behind the extinction of 100,000 species annually. If we are going to press the restart button and successfully initiate a cultural renaissance, we need to open our hearts to the suffering of all life, and have respect for all life, regardless of age, colour, sex, or species. There is no other way. We have to change SOMETIME. It may as well be now. The sooner the better, for all lifestreams. It has to be now.

Video - 1min - Monkey hugs crying woman. The monkey is seen putting both hands on the woman’s head to heal and calm her.

Video - 5min - This incredible video shows a monkey saving the dying friend on the rail tracks who fell unconscious after being shocked by electrical wires in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

In the first video, the monkey immediately helps a distressed human, but in stark contrast, in the second video, not one human in the large crowd helps to save the monkey.

We can learn so much from animals, who have compassion, intuition, intelligence, and healing abilities.

UK - 23 April 2019

Greta Thunberg condemns UK's climate stance in speech to MPs

My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I speak on behalf of future generations.

I know many of you don’t want to listen to us – you say we are just children. But we’re only repeating the message of the united climate science.

Many of you appear concerned that we are wasting valuable lesson time, but I assure you we will go back to school the moment you start listening to science and give us a future. Is that really too much to ask?

In the year 2030 I will be 26 years old. My little sister Beata will be 23. Just like many of your own children or grandchildren. That is a great age, we have been told. When you have all of your life ahead of you. But I am not so sure it will be that great for us.

I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big; I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and yet now we may have nothing.

Now we probably don’t even have a future any more.

Because that future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money. It was stolen from us every time you said that the sky was the limit, and that you only live once.

You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.

Is my microphone on? Can you hear me?

Around the year 2030, 10 years 252 days and 10 hours away from now, we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society have taken place, including a reduction of CO2 emissions by at least 50%.

And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale, inventions that are supposed to clear the atmosphere of astronomical amounts of carbon dioxide.

Furthermore, these calculations do not include unforeseen tipping points and feedback loops like the extremely powerful methane gas escaping from rapidly thawing arctic permafrost.

Nor do these scientific calculations include already locked-in warming hidden by toxic air pollution. Nor the aspect of equity – or climate justice – clearly stated throughout the Paris agreement, which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale.

We must also bear in mind that these are just calculations. Estimations. That means that these “points of no return” may occur a bit sooner or later than 2030. No one can know for sure. We can, however, be certain that they will occur approximately in these timeframes, because these calculations are not opinions or wild guesses.

These projections are backed up by scientific facts, concluded by all nations through the IPCC. Nearly every single major national scientific body around the world unreservedly supports the work and findings of the IPCC.

Did you hear what I just said? Is my English OK? Is the microphone on? Because I’m beginning to wonder.

During the last six months I have travelled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere. And the basic problem is that basically nothing is being done to halt – or even slow – climate and ecological breakdown, despite all the beautiful words and promises.

The UK is, however, very special. Not only for its mind-blowing historical carbon debt, but also for its current, very creative, carbon accounting.

Since 1990 the UK has achieved a 37% reduction of its territorial CO2 emissions, according to the Global Carbon Project. And that does sound very impressive. But these numbers do not include emissions from aviation, shipping and those associated with imports and exports. If these numbers are included the reduction is around 10% since 1990 – or an average of 0.4% a year, according to Tyndall Manchester.

And the main reason for this reduction is not a consequence of climate policies, but rather a 2001 EU directive on air quality that essentially forced the UK to close down its very old and extremely dirty coal power plants and replace them with less dirty gas power stations. And switching from one disastrous energy source to a slightly less disastrous one will of course result in a lowering of emissions.

But perhaps the most dangerous misconception about the climate crisis is that we have to “lower” our emissions. Because that is far from enough. Our emissions have to stop if we are to stay below 1.5-2C of warming. The “lowering of emissions” is of course necessary but it is only the beginning of a fast process that must lead to a stop within a couple of decades, or less. And by “stop” I mean net zero – and then quickly on to negative figures. That rules out most of today’s politics.

The fact that we are speaking of “lowering” instead of “stopping” emissions is perhaps the greatest force behind the continuing business as usual. The UK’s active current support of new exploitation of fossil fuels – for example, the UK shale gas fracking industry, the expansion of its North Sea oil and gas fields, the expansion of airports as well as the planning permission for a brand new coal mine – is beyond absurd.

This ongoing irresponsible behaviour will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind.

People always tell me and the other millions of school strikers that we should be proud of ourselves for what we have accomplished. But the only thing that we need to look at is the emission curve. And I’m sorry, but it’s still rising. That curve is the only thing we should look at.

Every time we make a decision we should ask ourselves; how will this decision affect that curve? We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases. We should no longer only ask: “Have we got enough money to go through with this?” but also: “Have we got enough of the carbon budget to spare to go through with this?” That should and must become the centre of our new currency.

Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you “solve” the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you “solve” a war? How do you “solve” going to the moon for the first time? How do you “solve” inventing new inventions?

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

“So, exactly how do we solve that?” you ask us – the schoolchildren striking for the climate.

And we say: “No one knows for sure. But we have to stop burning fossil fuels and restore nature and many other things that we may not have quite figured out yet.”

Then you say: “That’s not an answer!”

So we say: “We have to start treating the crisis like a crisis – and act even if we don’t have all the solutions.”

“That’s still not an answer,” you say.

Then we start talking about circular economy and rewilding nature and the need for a just transition. Then you don’t understand what we are talking about.

We say that all those solutions needed are not known to anyone and therefore we must unite behind the science and find them together along the way. But you do not listen to that. Because those answers are for solving a crisis that most of you don’t even fully understand. Or don’t want to understand.

You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

Sometimes we just simply have to find a way. The moment we decide to fulfil something, we can do anything. And I’m sure that the moment we start behaving as if we were in an emergency, we can avoid climate and ecological catastrophe. Humans are very adaptable: we can still fix this. But the opportunity to do so will not last for long. We must start today. We have no more excuses.

We children are not sacrificing our education and our childhood for you to tell us what you consider is politically possible in the society that you have created. We have not taken to the streets for you to take selfies with us, and tell us that you really admire what we do.

We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.

I hope my microphone was on. I hope you could all hear me.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/19/extinction-rebellion-climate-change-protests-london - The Extinction Rebels have got their tactics badly wrong. Here’s why. Andre Spicer.

Ghana

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/the-beginning-of-great-change-greta-thunberg-hails-school-climate-strikes

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/13/academics-back-uk-schools-climate-change-strikes - 13/2/19 - Academics back UK schools’ climate change strikes. More than 200 academics, including almost 100 professors, sign a letter to the Guardian saying pupils have a right to be angry at the inaction. School climate strike children’s brave stand has our support.

https://mercyforanimals.org/greta-thunberg-vegan-cop24-climate-change - This Vegan Teenager Just Schooled Politicians on Climate Change at the COP24. Greta Thunberg is vegan for ethical and environmental reasons.

https://climatesafety.info/70000-school-strikers-this-week-with-more-to-come/ - Belgian teachers do not want to punish a child who strikes, so they take the entire class to the strike.

ENERGY

Electricity from solar and wind can provide all our energy needs. There are so many other ways to create green energy.

DIY solar air heater - 9 min video

Quant - Salt water powered electric car - 2 min video. Acceleration: 0 to 60 mile an hour in 2.5 seconds! Speed: 250 mile an hour! 350 miles per tank of sea or salt water! Homes can be run on this same technology. This is very important for the planet! Please share with all your contacts, asking them to do the same. The first water powered car was invented in 1806 using a petrol engine. Due to vested interests or ignorance, ‘scientists’ say it’s impossible to run a car on water, even though they already exist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAmmUIEsN9A - School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules - Greta Thunberg – TEDxStockholm – Sweden

https://www.tes.com/news/heads-union-backs-pupils-strike-over-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR1InVAxCYZPW2lKDfZyB_Tarjuqv1wSfk2iMwkZGqAuAxYsfUL_YaykOiE -Heads’ union backs pupils’ strike over climate change. Day of Action branded ‘truancy’ and ‘recipe for disorder’, but union says it could be an ‘important and valuable’ life experience.

https://fridaysforfuture.org/ - FFF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut12qb_Ynd0 - Greta’s FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE announcement

“When animals are gone, man will feel a great loneliness of spirit” - Native American prediction.

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet” – Albert Einstein

“You can judge the moral progress and character of a society by how it treats its animals” - Gandhi, “The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism”

https://www.peta.org/living/food/vegan-bodybuilders/
“The root cause of mass extinction, planetary destruction, and all human suffering and exploitation, is our total lack of respect for all animals, and our heartless attitude towards sacred Nature and all life. We must have compassion for all created life if we want to survive. RESPECT is essential. Without this, the backward human race will not progress, but will continue to create negative Karma for itself” - Ironman, triathlete, and bodybuilder. Vegan.