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Greta Thunberg: Why Are Young Climate Activists Facing So Much Hate?

By Joshua Nevett — 2019

From the first protest by a single student, the school climate strike movement has been a lightning rod for criticism.

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How One Swedish Teenager Armed with a Homemade Sign Ignited a Crusade and Became the Leader of a Movement

How one Swedish teenager armed with a homemade sign ignited a crusade and became the leader of a movement.

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Stephen Rodrick
2020
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Pope Francis Declares ‘Climate Emergency’ and Urges Action

Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”

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Fiona Harvey, Jillian Ambrose
2019
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‘Hijacked by Anxiety’: How Climate Dread Is Hindering Climate Action

A growing school of psychologists believe the trauma of the climate crisis is a key barrier to change in that it paralyzes people into inaction.

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Jillian Ambrose
2020
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Telling people to ‘follow the science’ won’t save the planet. But they will fight for justice

The climate emergency has clear themes with heroes and villains. Describing it this way is how to build a movement.

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Amy Westervelt
2021
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Climate Action: Fear Hasn’t Motivated People, so Let’s Get Them Excited

To create excitement for the climate movement, we must create actionable incentives.

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Adam Met
2020
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In the Fight Against Climate Change, Young Voices Speak Out

Five participants in a Generation Climate program convened by The New York Times gave us their thoughts on the issues, why they became involved and how climate change and activism affect them personally.

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The New York Times Content Team and Youth Voices
2021
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As Climate Worsens, Environmentalists Also Grapple with the Mental Toll of Activism

Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.

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Alex Smith
2021
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Why Self-Care is Essential for Effective Sustainability Leadership

For activists and those who work on environmental, climate and sustainability issues, we might feel angst, grief, anger and/or frustration each time we hear about another climate domino falling.

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Thomas L. Rosenberg
2019
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The Days of ‘Let’s See What Happens’ Are Over

More extreme weather is happening more often, and we are its cause.

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Carl Safina
2021
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A Brief History of Cli-fi: Fiction That’s Hooking Readers on Climate Activism

t’s a truism that fiction teaches us about the world we live in: norms and cultures, values and beliefs, the complex interplay of external events and personal relationships that keeps us reading (or watching) until the end.

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Theodora Sutcliffe
2020
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