Choking back tears, this week Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg delivered a rousing speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, ahead of upcoming elections in May.
“Yesterday, the whole world witnessed with sadness and despair the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, but Notre-Dame will be rebuilt,” said Thunberg in her speech. “If our house was falling apart our leaders wouldn’t go on like we do today... Well, our house is falling apart and yet nothing is happening. We’ll have to switch to cathedral mode. I ask you to wake up and do what is necessary.
:"If we could all actually watch in horror at our planet being destroyed in the same way we watched in horror as Notre Dame was being destroyed, we might do more to stop it. #ExtinctionRebelion." Activist Greta Thunberg has rapidly risen to be one of the foremost voices in the climate movement, after inspiring a worldwide movement of children against global warming with her weekly school strike.Thunberg famously rode her bicycle to Stockholm’s Parliament House last year, taking up a place on the cobblestones with a hand-painted sign reading “school strike for climate”.
Television presenter Sir David Attenborough also announced his strongest words so far on the threat posed by climate change. Sir DavidWhile Notre-Damn is undoubtedly a tragedy, it shows that money and resources can be mobilized rapidly in times of anguish. Why are we not seeing the same reaction on climate change?
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