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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nEvery Friday, Greta began with striking alone in front of the Swedish Parliament. Her friends, peers initially did not show enthusiasm to join her. In the coming weeks, her friends skipped school too and joined her on her strike for Climate Action. This snowballed into a movement of millions of children, youth, adults, scientists joining her “Fridays for Future” strike for Climate Action. This Strike spread beyond Sweden to Australia, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, the United States of America amongst other countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
These\nevents also landed her to present her call for Climate Action in international\nforums like UN. Where she said – “We knew there was a climate crisis. We have watched as\npoliticians fumble, playing a political game rather than facing the facts that\nthe solutions we need cannot be found within the current system. They don\u2019t\nwant to face the facts \u2013 we need to change the system if we are to try to act\non the climate crisis. Other adults\nkeep saying: \u201cWe owe it to the young people to give them hope.\u201d But we don\u2019t\nwant your hope. We don\u2019t want you to be hopeful. We want you to panic and we\nwant you to take action. We want you to join us.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n On\nMarch 15th<\/sup>, 2019, Greta called for Global Action for Climate Change.\nThis event was joined by children, youth and adults in 112 countries around the\nworld. We at FSL India, were motivated to join the global movement!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\nchose not to strike but take an alternative approach. We chose 3 schools to do\nthe event as most of the others had their exams going on. Manjesh, Dinesh and\nVenkatesh, Manjunath Kannal and Ashwini facilitated this sessions in their\nrespective schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Venkatesh\nand team screened the talk of Greta Thunberg and explained the prominence of\nthe day. The students shared their perspectives on climate change. Some of them\nwere able to connect the global phenomenon to the change to sea levels in\nKundapur. All of them stood up and extended their hand forward and took an oath\nto adopt earth friendly practices. They concluded the session with singing\nsongs on nature and mother earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Manjunath\nKannal being a nature and wildlife enthusiast himself took this event to\nanother level. He arranged a big screening of the video to the entire school.\nHe initiated the session with conversations on Climate Change. The children who\nwere aware of the phenomenon raised their voices and shared their observations\nand perspectives. They completely agreed to everything Greta spoke in her talk.\nA few said that “she\nwas a big inspiration”\nas she was as the same age as theirs yet she is creating a huge impact in the\nworld with her cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ashwini\nwas fascinated watching Greta\u2019s invincible conviction and her ability to\ninspire the whole world to take action. Videos of climate change were screened at\nHombegowda school, Bangalore and the group was asked interesting questions on\nclimate change. The well aware students spoke about the pressing need and also\nconnected it to their academics, change in weather patterns and increase in\ntemperature. This built the stage for Greta Thunberg\u2019s talk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nboys eagerly shared the importance of taking action towards climate change. A\nfew suggested that there was no point in them doing anything because they are\ntoo small of make a difference. To which one responded \u2013 “Every drop counts and makes\nan ocean”. The\nfacilitator pointed out how Greta is one girl of their age, yet making such a\nhuge impact on people and climate change. And now, she has been nominated for\nthe Nobel Peace Prize. She stands as a wonderful example that we are never too\nsmall or insignificant to make an impact. The session ended with a spirit of “If she can, I can too!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last August, there was a pretty yet unusual sight to see a 15 year old stand outside the Swedish Parliament with Hand Painted sign boards and self made fliers. That was Greta Thunberg protesting for a stronger Action on Climate Change. Greta Thunberg was reading about Climate Change since she was 10 years. She decided to call for action by herself against the economy and law systems responsible for lax attitude and actions towards Climate Change. Every Friday, Greta began…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG-20190315-WA0004-1024x768.jpg\")
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