The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.
Interpretation
Films and documentaries can profoundly influence our awareness of environmental issues.
In the quote, Greta Thunberg emphasizes the transformative power of visual storytelling, particularly films and documentaries, in increasing awareness about the environmental crises and climate change. She suggests that such media can profoundly open people's eyes to the urgent realities of our planet's condition, inspiring action and consciousness towards protecting the environment.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about the importance of environmental education.
We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying 'we support you' and then walking away. We won't be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That's why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn't enough. That's why we have to keep striking.
When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.
I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.
We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.
Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
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