Climate Change
The compilation of Greta Thunberg’s speeches in the book primarily address the climate change crisis and global warming as the main agendas. As an environmentalist activist, she has recently become one of the firmest advocates for climate change initiatives. The speeches addressed at platforms such as the EU and UN are aimed at critiquing the limited measures that are being taken to tackle the crisis. She states the threats of global warming which include the changes in weather patterns, rising seas levels and extreme weather conditions such as heatwaves. Thus, the prominent theme in the discourses is climate change which is presently the most critical global crisis.
Pollution
The consistent theme in the climate change discourses is the carbon footprints caused by total emission by us as individuals and industries in general. Thunberg handles the main cause of global warming as the total carbon footprint left across the global. In her speech, Our House Is on Fire she addresses the need to reduce by half the CO2 emissions that are being currently emitted. Hence, carbon pollution and the need to reduce it presently and in the future is the priority in Thunberg’s climate initiatives.
Environmentalism
Generally, the book is a campaign on environmental protection thus the subject of environmentalism. Thunberg’s frank and harsh attitude in her discourses fosters the social movement as an urgent issue. The aim is to aggressively spread the word on the climate change crisis for more action to be taken rapidly before it is too late. Through the speeches ‘The Greta Effect’ has brought on more focus on the crisis among school-aged peers and also politicians. She is a realist and her words portray the notion that hope is simply not enough but rather action from every single individual.
