ClimateStrike December 2019-Salt Lake City, Utah (Copy)

Females seem to have a nesting, protect-the-brood, instinct. Most women I know exemplify concern for children and family. 2019 feels like a time when women have become more vocal and influential in regards to the national and international nests while being ignored and even ridiculed. The same may be said for the youth that go beyond what’s expected of them in school and become actively involved in current affairs and events that will impact their future.

Students, many of them female, have become more active in the politics of climate change I applaud Time Magazine’s Person of the Year selection this year: an adolescent who speaks for up for all of us, cuts through the crap, whether we like it or not. The realities that face our youth are different than those my generation contemplated. That is one of many reasons we need to listen to them. It is in their interest to be informed while many older folks seem incapable of adapting or adjusting their perceptions to the evolving realities. Click Here to see Greta’s December 11, 2019 speech at the Madrid Climate Summit.

The following are pieces of video and audio footage I put together during a Climate Strike demonstration at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City.. I hope you find them as interesting and even inspiring as I did while interviewing and recording.

The first one, CLIMATE STRIKE, I would subtitle it “How Dare They.” The first speaker, a high school student, calls out the critics of Climate Strike as well as local politicians for the exploitation of Utah’s Trust Lands in the name of education. I thought of Greta and the shadow she casts over the globe as I listened to these inspiring speeches.

The second “Interviews” is a compilation of interviews at the Climate Strike. I asked them: What changes would you like to see in the world? All this took place prior to Greta’s being nominated Person of the Year by Time Magazine and our president’s pre-adolescent bullying-like reaction.