In this short video, the 18-year-old Swedish activist argues that we can’t look to politicians to solve the climate crisis; instead, she says, it’s “up to you and me.” What gives you hope in the fight against climate change?
“Greta Thunberg Has Given Up on Politicians” is an eight-minute film profiling the 18-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg who calls our climate and ecological emergency “the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.”
In this animated Op-Doc video, Ms. Thunberg argues that the climate crisis cannot be solved within today’s political and economic systems. While she may have given up on presidents and prime ministers, kings and queens, politicians and leaders — their excuses, empty words and inaction — Ms. Thunberg has not given up on humanity. “It’s up to you and me,” she says. “No one else will do it for us.”
Do we believe that ordinary people around the globe have the power to create meaningful change? What gives you hope in the fight against climate change?
Students
1. Watch the short film above. While you watch, you might take notes using our Film Club Double-Entry Journal (PDF) to help you remember specific moments.
2. After watching, think about these questions:
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What moments in this film stood out for you? Why?
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Were there any surprises? Anything that challenged what you know — or thought you knew?
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What messages, emotions or ideas will you take away from this film? Why?
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What questions do you still have?
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What connections can you make between this film and your own life or experience? Why? Does this film remind you of anything else you’ve read or seen? If so, how and why?
3. An additional challenge | Respond to the essential question at the top of this post: What gives you hope in the fight against climate change?
4. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)
5. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.
6. To learn more, read “This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults.” a Guest Opinion Essay published in August by Greta Thunberg along with Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu and Eric Njuguna, who are youth climate activists from Mexico, Bangladesh and Kenya:
Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” said the United Nations secretary general.
It is — but young people like us have been sounding this alarm for years. You just haven’t listened.
On Aug. 20, 2018, one child staged a lone protest outside the Swedish Parliament, expecting to stay for three weeks. Tomorrow we will mark three years since Greta Thunberg’s strike. Even earlier, brave young people from around the world spoke out about the climate crisis in their communities. And today, millions of children and young people have united in a movement with one voice, demanding that decision makers do the work necessary to save our planet from the unprecedented heat waves, massive floods and vast wildfires we are increasingly witnessing. Our protest will not end until the inaction does.
For children and young people, climate change is the single greatest threat to our futures. We are the ones who will have to clean up the mess you adults have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to suffer now. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the dangerous weather events, diseases and other harms caused by climate change, which is why a new analysis released Friday by UNICEF is so important.
The Children’s Climate Risk Index provides the first comprehensive view of where and how this crisis affects children. It ranks countries based on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, as well as their underlying vulnerability to those shocks.
It finds that virtually every child on the planet is exposed to at least one climate or environmental hazard right now. A staggering 850 million, about a third of all the world’s children, are exposed to four or more climate or environmental hazards, including heat waves, cyclones, air pollution, flooding or water scarcity. A billion children, nearly half the children in the world, live in “extremely high risk” countries, the UNICEF researchers report.
This is the world being left to us. But there is still time to change our climate future. Around the world, our movement of young activists continues to grow.
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