Many people know about Great Thunberg, the girl who started the Fridays for Future movement, by striking from school every Friday to create awareness of the climate crisis. She quickly in the autumn of 2018 gain attention and more and more people started to join in Stockholm but also in other country’s. Fridays for Future was born and climate strikes happened all over the world mostly by young people. It’s easy to believe that Greta is the only person behind this movement, but of course many young people who joined early in the start of the movement has contributed to the creation of Fridays for Future.
Luisa Neubauer has been mentioned as the German face behind the climate strikes. She’s one of the persons who has organised the demonstrations and she has also been involved in several other projects such as pressuring University of Göttingen to divest from fossil fuels. In this speech she talks about how you can be an activist too. She reminds us of that we are all voters and no one know all the facts but we can all impact media, friends and politicians to act.
This is how wikipedia describes activism:
“Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social, political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range from mandate building in the community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage (or boycott) of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes.“Based on that note, we can all be activists for climate action.”
Based on that note, we can all be climate activists.