Want To Stop Climate Change? Educate Girls.
“Today’s girls are tomorrow’s leading scientists, campaigners and politicians.”
“Today’s girls are tomorrow’s leading scientists, campaigners and politicians.”
An Alberta oil company, X-Site Energy Services, handed out promotional stickers at job sites for workers to wear on their hard hats. These stickers had a cartoon image of Greta Thunberg, who is now 17, being sexually assaulted.
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that US lawmakers opposing environmental protections get rewards from the oil and gas industry.
President Trump wants to plant one trillion trees to protect the environment. In his State of the Union Address, he announced that the United States would join the One Trillion Trees Initiative.
Greta Thunberg has been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize by two legislators from Sweden. Also nominated are the people of Hong Kong.
Barcelona and Boston are the latest cities to declare climate emergencies. Both have issued detailed plans to slash carbon emissions.
The musician Meatloaf tweeted recently that he didn’t believe in climate change and that Greta Thunberg was brainwashed. The truth is that it’s not about Meatloaf, it’s not about Greta, it’s not about you or me.
Why did this year bring us climate hope? Advances in solutions and the truly unprecedented momentum the climate movement gained in just one year.
On June 12, 2020, thousands of climate activists will gather in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium to simultaneously submit a series of petitions to the Bundestag. If any gather more than 50,000 signatures, the legislature is obligated to consider it and vote on it. Representative democracy in action.
Greta Thunberg has been named TIME Person of the Year. Can young people prevent humanity from making the Earth uninhabitable?