Climate crisis got you anxious and depressed? This conversation may make you feel better about our chances to tackle the problems and save our lives
. There are parents. There have been strikes. The disruption of a school child saying, “I’m not going to school.” You should see the debates in Germany, where I spend a lot of time, where you’re required to go to school. It makes people go, “Whoa, wait a minute.” That’s a disruption in the system that was opened up by Greta [Thunberg] and many, many, many other kids. It’s created a shift in the politics.
I want to ask about the media. There certainly seems to be a lot of interest in covering the climate crisis, but at the same time it’s not really being taken as seriously as it should be. In the Democratic primary debate a few weeks ago Bernie Sanders tried to bring up climate change while speaking about trade andI think for the most part, the media has not treated this as the central issue that it is for the future of humanity. It’s not just governments.
So I feel less alone. I feel more empowered, obviously. It’s hard. Davos is what, 24 percent women? And a lot of them are probably from NGOs, because if you look at the big banks, if you look at the oil companies, it’s mostly men. I just had an experience actually on my last panel where this guy clearly wasn’t a business guy and wasn’t happy with what I said. He basically accused me of being emotional instead of fact-based. I said to him that I can’t believe in 2020 that you’re saying this.
I think there’s a lot of different components of it. Obviously there are now many, many people like her around the world, especially developing countries where these impacts are happening. But Greta took a single act of courage, of boycotting school, and gave voice to the words of so many kids. She gave them permission to voice what probably was in the back of their heads. She showed them that their voice really can matter.
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