India, March 20 -- Sunita Narain on the lessons from the ongoing #FridaysForFuture demonstrations
Greta Ernman Thunberg is a 16-year-old Swedish school girl who is rocking the world with her protest against inaction on climate change. In August 2018, as Sweden was gearing up for its national elections, she decided not to go to school, but to sit outside to raise the flag on the need to do more, much more to combat deadly climate change. At first, it is said, she was alone but as she persisted and persisted, her voice got louder and louder. Now she sits in protest every Friday outside her school urging the world to act. And with her, at the last count, Friday of mid-March some 1,650 strikes were on in over 100 countries.
What Greta and her...