Greta Thunberg

Scientists have used recent B.C. fires to model the effects of nuclear war on climate.

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While their voices may have reached media networks, the power of their collective talent has not been fully harnessed. It is imperative we act now to integrate young people.

"When we start to act, hope is everywhere," climate activist Greta Thunberg said. "So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then the hope will come."

A Swedish teenager goes from country to country in Europe, aiming salvos of scientific truth about climate crisis  at the world’s recalcitrant political and corporate leaders, most of whom are working very hard to pretend that there is no global climate crisis.

On a particularly windy Friday afternoon, thousands of students gathered outside Canada to demand a better future. Their chants echoed through the air: “We are unstoppable. Another world is possible,” they roared.

There is a sense of a diagnosis being made, en masse. The children of the world have shunned the system created by adults.... They are looking into each other’s eyes, confirming that climate change is an existential threat to their health and well-being, and that their elders have failed to protect them.

We have entered an era in which children and young people are standing up and stating truths that many of their adult contemporaries either ignore or flatly deny.

One day last summer, aged 15, she skipped school, sat down outside the Swedish parliament – and inadvertently kicked off a global movement

A portrait of Haven Coleman, a young climate activist.

“This Friday I can’t be there,” she told the Guardian. “So I will have to do it here in Davos, and send a message that this is the only thing that matters.”

There is real hope for the future in the ancient human story of true fellowship. People will withstand and overcome amazing odds if they feel accompanied and loved in real human relationships

If we start treating the climate crisis as a true crisis, there will soon be a rapid growth of clean electric public transit options in communities around the world. 

Despite decades of global climate negotiations, CO2 levels are rocketing upwards at record pace.

Brazil, France and Germany say UN can’t hear complaint against five countries of flouting child rights to clean air