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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

by Greta Thunberg

2019•EN
About the book

This collection gathers the public speeches delivered by Greta Thunberg between 2018 and 2019, documenting her transition from a lone protester to an international figure. The text centers on the physics of the carbon budget and the immediate necessity of lowering emissions to keep global temperature rises under 1.5 degrees Celsius. Thunberg utilizes scientific data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to argue that current political and economic structures fail to account for the ecological limits of the planet. She advocates for systemic changes rather than individual lifestyle adjustments, emphasizing the catastrophic risks of feedback loops and tipping points.

The book serves as a resource for climate activists and students who require clear, data-driven arguments to communicate the urgency of the environmental crisis. Readers find a direct synthesis of climate science and ethics, stripped of technical jargon and diplomatic euphemisms. By engaging with these speeches, an audience learns how to frame the climate emergency as a matter of generational justice. The reader walks away with a blunt understanding of the current trajectory of global warming and a vocabulary for demanding accountability from institutional leaders.

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Published
2019
Language
EN

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