Women Warriors: Climate Revolutionaries highlights activist Greta Thunberg

The September 20th 2019: Women Warriors — Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, featured the music of eight renowned female film composers and presents 800 years of women fighting for human rights and equality.

Chapter 7 from the concert: ‘Climate Revolutionaries’ highlighted 16 year old activist; Greta Thunberg, who in August 2018 started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world and now involves over 100,000 schoolchildren. The movement is now called Fridays For Future.

Today’s special podcast from Women Warriors: The Voices of Change — Climate Revolutionaries, features the music of Miriam Cutler. Click here to listen.

Greta Thunberg has spoken at climate rallies in Stockholm, Helsinki, Brussels and London. In December she attended the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland, where she addressed the Secretary-General and made a plenary speech that went viral and was shared many million times around the globe. In January 2019 she was invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos where her speeches again made a worldwide impact.

Thunberg tries to live a low-carbon life. Therefore she is vegan, and she doesn’t fly. She has been named as one of the worlds most influential teens by TIME magazine.

In this passionate TED Talks call to action, Thunberg explains why she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming. “The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions,” Thunberg says. “All we have to do is to wake up and change.”

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