Greta Thunber, the 16-year-old founder of Youth Strike for Climate, is a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Swedish teenager has prompted thousands of children around the world to skip school on Fridays as a protest against climate change and its dangerous effects.
Despite her youthfulness – or perhaps because of it – Greta’s example has inspired me to stop, think and write about climate change and rising sea levels. Here are my thoughts. (I know this is not a normal news story but who says it has to be? These are abnormal times.)
Water everywhere. With global warming, the sky is crying in Northeast and Midwest of the USA. Flooding. The same sky is thirsty in the Southwest. Droughts.
Water down in the Pacific Ocean. Rising higher until it will kiss the sky.
Water at the ends of the Earth, in the Arctic and Antarctica. No more polar ice for the Coca Cola Bear.
Water in a bottle, freshwater refreshing me. Teen Greta Thunberg fighting to give freshwater to her grandchildren.
No Freshwater Means No Pingu. No Simba in the snow. No Dumbo. If they could talk, what would they say about our stupidity?
Water everywhere. Or maybe not. The climate change monster has drunk it all.
Water nowhere. Source of life. Climate change everywhere. Lifeless.
This year, Earth Hour – a movement organised by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) – takes place on 30 March from 8:30 pm to 9:30 p.m. The campaign encourages people around the world to switch off all non-essential lights. “We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world. And we could be the last that can do anything about it. We have the solutions, we just need our voices to be heard”, the WWF stated.
If Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower can go dark for an hour, you can do it too!
“WWF” by DocChewbacca is licensed under CC BY-SA
