[MCN] Greta Thunberg

[Lance Olsen]

“I don’t know if people in my generation are willing to change their habits and lifestyles. We want to be like everyone else.”

“We can’t keep thinking that way.”
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/vb9zpb/watch-our-new-film-about-the-climate-strikes-make-the-world-greta-again <https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/vb9zpb/watch-our-new-film-about-the-climate-strikes-make-the-world-greta-again>


** Greta Thunberg wasn’t 1st to talk of climate and panic**

Hans Joachim Schellenhuber. “Global warming: Stop worrying and start panicking?”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2008
[ open access ] https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239 <https://www.pnas.org/content/105/38/14239>

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“The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.”

Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic minimum. 

The prospect of a five-degree warming has prompted some of the world’s leading climate scientists to warn of the end of human civilization.”

<<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html>>>



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