Tag: Greta Thunberg
Film review: Wild Things packs passionate climate activism into an overly polite documentary
Picture: Potential Films
The content of some films is so close to the heart that it’s difficult to critically evaluate them. If you’re an atheist, The...
Sunday essay: why we need children’s life stories like I Am Greta
Picture: EPA/MANUEL DE ALMEIDA
When a young celebrity writes a memoir or has a biography written about them, a common response is: they are too...
Sunday essay: thinking like a planet – environmental crisis and the humanities
NASA ‘could not imagine the radical effect of seeing the Earth’
from the moon. In the face of a climate catastrophe, we all...
Misogyny, male rage and the words men use to describe Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg departs after speaking at the youth
climate strike in Battery Park, New York. Peter Foley/EPA
Detractors have dismissed Swedish climate activist Greta...
‘We will never forgive you’: youth is not wasted on the young who fight for climate justice
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins other children from
across the world to present an official human rights complaint on the climate crisis.
Michael Nagle/EPA
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With 15 other children, Greta Thunberg has filed a UN complaint against 5 countries. Here’s what it’ll achieve
Whether or not the petitioners are successful, the mere act of
filing the complaint has already brought the matter into the public eye. Justin...