#WhatWouldGretaDo

In case you’ve been living under a rock, let me fill you in. Mother Nature is taking back her land and proving time and time again that she is mightier than human and that she is pissed at what we’ve done with her. 

Despite what anyone says, global warming is a real and a currently occurring thing. In fact scientists have known about the Greenhouse Effect since 1824, when Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth would be much colder if it had no atmosphere. This natural greenhouse effect is what keeps the Earth's climate livable. 

Greta Thunderberg is a 16 year old Climate Change activist with Asperger’s, who is making the changes and sparking the discussions in the world that 7 generations before her time of humanity should have made. Greta’s “syndrome” or “mental illness” of Asperger’s in many ways keeps her fighting stronger. At 11 years old, after watching a film that introduced the effects of climate change, Greta fell into a deep dark depression. This was a wake up for her and she felt it was her responsibility to stand up and do something since it was clear that politicians didn’t give a damn. Having Asperger’s makes Thunderberg a no bullshit adolescent and she goes further to say “If I were like everyone else, I would have continued on and not seen this crisis.” 

Her family/parents desperate to break her out of the depression spell tried comforting her by telling her that everything would be ok. But her father even confesses that after reading and learning more about  climate change, he realized that she was right about everything and that climate change not only effects our earth but it also predicts to expose some 350 million additional people to drought and push roughly 120 million people into extreme poverty by 2030. 

On Jenny From The Blawg, under “culture” I am starting a series called “#whatwouldgretado.” In this series I will write about daily habits or universal changes that need to happen and that Greta would make. I believe that as “millennials” we are responsible for most of the social changes happening right now and that that Greta’s generation (generation Z) is/will be responsible for the radical climate changes that must happen immediately. 

I hope if nothing more that this will start conversation so that we can begin to make change. Imagine the amount of accumulated change in the world if you and everyone you knew made just 1 change in the way they recycle or the amount of driving they do.... it’s up to us to save the planet and Koala Bears!!!!