there's a lot of people Greta that when it comes to this topic they feel quite powerless before you yourself are on the global stage we hear that you you kind of did some campaigning to your parents and it helped you kind of it gave you more hope I suppose but what is it that you were doing like to campaign to your parents yeah I mean of course when you're a child when you're like eight or ten or eleven years old there is not much that you can really do to make a big difference so then
you start small I started with turning off the lights at home to save energy and that led to another thing which led to another thing and eventually I stopped flying I stopped I I became vegan and so on and then I I got my parents to do that too because I started talking to them and they started to listen to my concerns and by making them change it also gave me the sort of Courage that I needed to to move on to start school striking so starting somewhere is is really good starting home for example
I think that's what they say isn't it start where you are yeah aggressive these days you're still just 19 years old and you are a key voice in this huge Global movement that comes with a lot of pressure what helps you deal with that I think the most important thing is knowing that we are so many people who are who are fighting for the same cause I have so many friends who who I can share this with and who who quarrels activists and without them it would not be possible yeah you you hold those other
activists close I actually saw this amazing picture of you having fun because you also like to have fun with the Malala yousafzai now those hats I was gonna say I know that there's a story behind them you knitted them crocheted them I crocheted them uh yes that's what I do I'm a Frog hat factory um but you're not exaggerating because I saw you earlier with one of your team and there was several members of your the group traveling with you people had the Frog hats on yep how many have you made now maybe 25 or
so okay oh gosh 25 the new logo yeah the regrettable logo like it so you've channeled all of this knowledge that you've accumulated Greta into your new book called The Climate book it's not just written by yourself off you've got together more than a hundred people brought together their expertise their knowledge all into one place into this book so I suppose like who are you hoping picks this book up I'm hoping to reach as many as possible um for me this is a type of activism I use whatever platform I have whatever opportunity I have
to spread awareness to as many as possible because I have the privilege to have the opportunity to do something and therefore it is also my mission to spread awareness to as many as possible the sort of idea with this is to is to send to those who have important things to say whether it is scientists experts or activists living on the front lines authors who can share stories about this um in doing so I hope to communicate a holistic picture of of all these crises that we face and make people connect the dots between them
so I hope that this can be some kind of of beginners guide to The Climate emergency yeah it's important to you I think that the book contains so many different perspectives why does that matter and because the climate crisis has so many different sides to it it's not just the fact that that the planet is heating up it's also about droughts it's about famines it's about floods it's about the displacements of tens of millions of people happening already today already earlier this month that we have seen um and that is there are different sides to
this story that we must tell I mean I mentioned earlier Greta about people feeling overwhelmed about this topic and there might be people at home that are thinking I don't know how does it allowed me kind of make a difference or whatever like what would you say to those people um I would say that it's it's very understandable to feel overwhelmed because the things we'll we're talking about the things we're dealing with are existential threats to humanity unlike anything the world has ever seen before so it's very understandable to to not know exactly where to
begin and what to do about it and that's why for me it's it helped do something concrete and that I started to read a bit more about it I started to educate myself and when I became fully aware of it I sort of knew myself what I could do and and then I I I made the decision to start school striking for the climate um but but also as I mentioned earlier connect with other people who feel the same thing who share the same values as you because when you're together in this struggle then there
is no there are no limits to what you can accomplish yeah brilliantly said Graceman thank you very much for your time
