Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg, Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year 2019
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Greta Thunberg at la Marche pour le climate on Sep. 27, 2019, at Montreal (Attribution: Lea-Kim Chateauneuf, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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It is not a coincidence that Time magazine’s Person Of The Year in 2019 is Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, calling leaders of the world to pay attention and to actively establish policies to slow down Climate Change. Greta Thunberg, claimed the upper hand after the President’s team made a sad attempt to drag her on Twitter, in the video “Greta Claps Back After Trump’s Lame Attempt To Troll Her On Twitter“, below:
Extreme weather is endangering people’s lives and livelihoods. Are we prepared to change the way we live to avert the worst of outcomes? Guests: Clara Mayer (Fridays for Future), Alan Posener (journalist, Die Welt), Stefan Rahmstorf (climatologist) Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Ocean Physics who heads earth systems analysis at the renowned Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He says: “The science is clear: we are facing catastrophic risks and we need to act fast to avoid them. It’s time for decisive action, not for anxiety.” Alan Posener, blogger and commentator for the German newspaper Die Welt. He says: “We need courage, not anxiety, in order to save the climate, democracy, capitalism and the dream of a good life for everyone. Abandoning one of these aims will endanger all of them.” Clara Mayer, a high school student and spokesperson for Fridays for Future Berlin: She says: “While a certain fear shows real concern, it is important that this concern is now channeled into action, especially from large corporations and politicians, who hold a great responsibility to pass legislation controlling this crisis.” In the video “Climate Anxiety: Too Little, Too Late? To The Point“, below:
The frozen continent of Antarctica contains the vast majority of all freshwater on Earth. Now that ice is melting at an accelerating rate, in part because of climate change. What does this transformation mean for coastal communities across the globe? William Brangham reports from Antarctica on the troubling trend of ice loss and how glaciers can serve as a climate record from the past, in the video “Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate. How much will sea levels rise?” below:
A group of scientists and doctoral students from UC Davis recently traveled to Antarctica where they became the first group to collect turbulence measurements from beneath an ice shelf. With this data, scientists will be able to better understand how quickly ice shelves are melting and to make predictions of how these rates will change under future climate scenarios, in the video “How Fast Are Ice Shelves Really Melting?“, below:
“It is a moral call to the rest of the world.” Former U.S. President Barack Obama said he thinks “big, industrialized” countries like the U.S. have an obligation to chip in more to help halt climate change, in the video “U.S. Has ‘Moral Call’ to Do More to Halt Climate Change, Obama Says“, below:
Time Magazine’s selection of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year underscores the growing clout of youth power—pushing governments to escalate the fight against what many consider a climate crisis. That is also happening in Africa, which is especially vulnerable to climate change. At the Madrid climate conference, Lisa Bryant reports on three young Africans who are making a difference, in the video “In Madrid, Young Africans Are Stepping up the Fight Against Climate Change“, below:
In addition to encouraging politicians to establish policies to help to slow down climate change ( incentives for electric vehicles and solar installations) and to prepare residents for adapting to future climate change (potential need of housing, vaccinations, moving inland, changing farming practices), we as individuals, can all do much more (such as driving electric vehicles or share vehicles, installing solar, eating less meat, etc.)
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