No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Paperback, 80 pages

English language

Published April 9, 2019 by Penguin UK.

ISBN:
978-0-14-199174-0
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4 stars (14 reviews)

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'

In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

This book brings you Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across Europe, from the UN to mass street protests, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it.

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Inspirational!

4 stars

I saw two social media posts about Greta Thunberg while I was reading through this Penguin collection of her inspirational speeches. One post on Facebook was sneering because there was apparently a single plastic bottle visible in a photograph of Greta on the famous sailboat journey. Another post, this time on Twitter, was a vicious attack ridiculing her as a disturbed child. Both posts sought to dismiss Greta out of hand and neither actually engaged with the climate message she so fervently wants to share. That so many (mostly) men are desperate to undermine Greta is encouraging! It shows she is hitting a nerve, that the points she so clearly makes are valid, and that the money-making echelons of society are worried about the effects of her words on their profits.

Such responses recalled to me my review of We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik. Nesrine talks about the …

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