We are a small but dedicated group of people that meet every Friday from 3:30pm – 4:30pm on the Guildhall steps in Derry. We are the local representation of the young people’s movement Fridays For Future (FFF), Fridays For Future Foyle. We are delighted that bold Greta Thunberg stepped forward, and that she is leading the change in conversation on “The Climate Emergency”. We must know more!
“When we start to act hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope – look for action. Then the hope will come”
Greta Thunberg
In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading School strike for climate. Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities.
Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. In 2018 Greta addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. In the same year she also sailed to North America from the UK where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed “how dare you”, was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.
`This is where we stand our ground.'
Greta Thunberg delivers the powerful speech first heard at Glastonbury Festival in the summer of 2022. Over the last year and half she has created a book with over 100 contributors sharing their expertise and experience to paint a holistic picture. That book is The Climate Book:
Of course climate conversation and the Youth Climate Movement is not all about one person, or what one person says. There are so many influential activists out there… come join the conversation
more content and links soon:
Fridays For Future YouTube Channel
I never planned to become a climate activist. But things have changed, and now, standing here as a climate activist, I ask you all to become one, too. Here’s why, and most importantly, how. Watch Luisa Neubauer’s Ted Talk
This is not someone else's world it is our world. We transform it together by being the change we want to see.
