“If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves” –Harrison Ford July 27, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment We are facing an emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. The way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life. Unending economic growth and profits drawn from a planet with limited resources is causing gross inequality, poverty, mass misery, and species extinction. We are sold an illusion that consumption will bring purpose and happiness into our lives, yet this systemic consumption is threatening our very existence. It is based on unjust and unethical land use and ownership, unsustainable and increasing amounts of debt and enslavement of individuals.Power and money is concentrated in the hands of the few, while the masses struggle to simply survive. It is causing climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.As Greta Thunberg has been saying since the ‘Declaration of Rebellion’ last October 31: ‘We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.” So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.Edited by Lindford Lowe
Goldene Kamera Award Speech of Greta Thunberg May 15, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The young climate activist Greta Thunberg has been awarded the “Special Prize Climate Protection” during Germany’s Media awards show GOLDENE KAMERA 2019. She used her speech to call on media celebrities to raised their voices and spread the message on climate change.
Greta Thunberg, Anna Taylor and Caroline Lucas on the New Climate Movement May 5, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Anna Taylor from the UK Student Climate Network join the Green party MP, Caroline Lucas, and the Guardian’s Zoe Williams to discuss how to address the climate crisis and where to go from here for Guardian Live.