“Everything needs to change – and it has to start today.”

At age 15, Greta Thunberg created a movement when she began protesting to demand action on the crisis of climate change. She walked out of school and sat outside the Swedish parliament every day for three weeks. Her actions inspired more than 100,000 children world-wide to become involved in a movement called Fridays for Future.
In 2018, Greta spoke at the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland, where her speech went viral. In January 2019 she was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos where her speeches again made a worldwide impact. She has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and was named one of the world’s 100 most influential people by TIME magazine.
Listen to Greta’s talk on the TED Radio Hour broadcast by NPR where she said that instead of looking for hope, we need to look for action. “Everything needs to change and it has to start today. It is only then that hope will come.”

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/07/730383662/greta-thunberg-are-we-running-out-of-time-to-save-our-planet

Prompted by Greta’s call for action, I want to share the action that Steve Oldham and his team at Carbon Engineering (https://carbonengineering.com/) in Squamish, B.C. are already taking.
I heard Steve at TED^x Portland on April 27, 2019. Watch and listen to his idea that could save our planet. The cost Steve says is only 1% of GDP, which happens to be the amount of money spent on one day of the year, Christmas. What could be a better gift to the children of the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZu7N3LAbUM (This link is to all the speakers at the 2019 TED^x Portland, so scroll across to 27:00 to watch Steve. His talk is about 15 minutes long.)

I conclude this month’s post with the words of poet Jericho Brown in his conversation with Krista Tippett https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-small-truths-and-other-surprises/.
“Hope is always accompanied by the imagination, the will to see what our physical environment seems to deem impossible. Only the creative mind can make use of hope. Only a creative people can wield it.”

We are creative people who can take action that starts today!