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challenging
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
3.0
It is extremely difficult to write this review without sounding “bad”. I enjoyed the reading and I’ll write my favourite quotes at the end, but since this is a review about the book, and not what she’s saying, I’ll be a little harsher.
This short book is a collection of Greta’s speeches. Even if I found some great quotes, hearing and reading speeches are two very different things. This book was short but extremely repetitive, it was annoying reading her presentation of herself every 5 pages (out of 69!). I would have loved much much more to read a single, longer, written-speech that could somme them all.
This short book is a collection of Greta’s speeches. Even if I found some great quotes, hearing and reading speeches are two very different things. This book was short but extremely repetitive, it was annoying reading her presentation of herself every 5 pages (out of 69!). I would have loved much much more to read a single, longer, written-speech that could somme them all.
Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis'. But the climate crisis has already been solved.
We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change. - Almost everything is black and white
Some people say that we are not doing enough to fight climate change. But that is not true. Because to 'not do enough' you have to do something. - Prove me wrong
I don't want you to be hopeful.
I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. - Our House is on Fire
I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very Strange to people in general. - I’m too young to do this
When many politicians talk about the school strike for the climate, they talk about almost anything except for the climate crisis. - You’re acting like spoiled, irresponsible children
Where some people seem to be more concerned about the presence in school of some children than the future of humankind. - A strange world
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Classism, Mass/school shootings, and Death
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