Il futuro è già qui by Guido Viale

“…Despite the authoritative warnings (from IPCC to COP 21, from Pope Francis to Greta Thunberg) climate crisis is reaching irreversibility. …”
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Using Animal Retribution Fiction for the Promotion of Environmental Awareness: the Case for a Reinterpretation of Daphne Du Maurier's "The Birds" by Xavier LACHAZETTE

“…Al Gore's phrase "An Inconvenient Truth", for instance, strikes one's imagination far less than the "house on fire" metaphor popularized by French President Jacques Chirac and Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. Another powerful image is to be found in Daphne Du Maurier's allegorical novella "The Birds" (1952), which focuses on a small Cornish community's fight for survival when organised hosts of winged creatures take to killing humans in the wake of a sudden climate change. …”
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Transformational learning and engagement on climate action for students attending a climate negotiation by Julie Snorek, Elisabeth Gilmore

“…Abstract When Greta Thunberg addressed world leaders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s 24th Conference of Parties (COP24), it highlighted how young people including Indigenous youth are seeking to influence international climate change negotiations. …”
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Social Studies, Civics, and Fracking: Ohio Teacher Perceptions of Controversial Environmental Issues by Matthew S Hollstein

“…Recent work by young activist like Greta Thunberg and others have highlighted a sincere interest from social studies students in issues related to the environment. …”
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“School Strike 4 Climate”: Social Media and the International Youth Protest on Climate Change by Shelley Boulianne, Mireille Lalancette, David Ilkiw

“…This activism was initiated and led by Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg. Like other contemporary movements, the School Strike 4 Climate used social media. …”
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The Role of Emotions in Mobilization of Society to Fight Climate Change: Constructing Emotional State to Inspire Mass Movement by Neringa Mataitytė

“…This paper raises the question of how the emotional environment was favourably constructed in Greta Thunberg’s case in order to mobilize international society to join climate change strikes, and it aims to reveal how group emotions play an important role in successful international mobilization. …”
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Generation Z and Organizational Listening on Social Media by Hanna Reinikainen, Jaana T. Kari, Vilma Luoma-aho

“…Young people are avid users of social media and have appeared as a powerful force for social change, as shown by the ranks of those who have joined Greta Thunberg in the global climate movement. In addition to challenging political institutions and governments, young people today are also holding the corporate world accountable. …”
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Inoculating against threats to climate activists’ image: Intersectional environmentalism and the Indian farmers’ protest by Anandita Sabherwal, Ganga Shreedhar, Sander van der Linden

“…In a pre-registered experiment (N=541 Indian adults), we investigated the effect of Greta Thunberg's tweets expressing solidarity with the Indian farmers’ protest on Indians’ receptivity to her climate advocacy and their intentions to take collective climate action. …”
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Introduction by Bronwin Patrickson

“…The original call for papers for this special edition on Eco-pedagogy and Digital Nature Connections began by noting young people’s growing frustrations with the escalating ecological crisis, reflected in the world-wide 2019 take up of Greta Thunberg’s impassioned climate strike initiative. …”
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Problemas socioambientales y educación ambiental. El cambio climático desde la perspectiva de los futuros maestros de educación primaria by Olga Moreno-Fernández

“…Esta problemática socioambiental ha reactivado la política ambiental tras el movimiento “Viernes para el futuro”, liderado por la activista Greta Thunberg y puso de manifiesto la relevancia que tiene la temática. …”
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Misfits and ecological saints: strategies for non-normative living in autistic life writing by Anna Catherine Stenning

“…This article reads the autobiographical writings of Packham, Greta Thunberg and Mukhopadhyay in terms of intra-action between humans and their environments. …”
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Just Chill! An Experimental Approach to Stereotypical Attributions Regarding Young Activists by Catarina Farinha, Miriam Rosa

“…Considering that activists are generally considered as high-competent, but low-warm, while youth are considered the opposite (low-competence and high-warmth), we hypothesized the impacts on morality/trustworthiness. Greta Thunberg and Jane Fonda were the personalities used in Study 1 (N = 276), randomly assigned to participants while keeping the same discourse excerpt. …”
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Lost in translation? Religious elements and concepts in youth climate movements by Geke van Vliet, Jacques W. Beukes

“…An illustrious instance is the School Strike for Climate, which was orchestrated by the adolescent environmentalist, Greta Thunberg. The climate movements exhibit a range of objectives, actions and focus. …”
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Having fun saving the climate by Helle Kannik Haastrup

“…  “How dare you!” was Greta Thunberg’s angry address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019 and she epitomized the younger generations emotionally charged critique of the political establishment and their lack of efforts to solve the climate crisis. …”
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Young people's climate activism: A review of the literature by Sally Neas, Ann Ward, Benjamin Bowman, Benjamin Bowman

“…We identify several gaps in the literature that arise from a disproportionate focus on research topics, and especially a disproportionate focus on activism in the global North and in wealthy and White communities, a focus on mass mobilizations, and an intensive interest in the individual activist Greta Thunberg. Our analysis leads to recommendations for future research based on three conceptual challenges. …”
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Uneven solidarity: the school strikes for climate in global and intergenerational perspective by Catherine Walker

“…Abstract Background The school strikes for climate (henceforth, the school strikes) initiated by Greta Thunberg have brought young people’s environmental concerns to the global stage. …”
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Between Calls for Action and Narratives of Denial: Climate Change Attention Structures on Twitter by Hendrik Meyer, Amelia Katelin Peach, Lars Guenther, Hadas Emma Kedar, Michael Brüggemann

“…Accordingly, attention is often connected to controversial debates regarding focusing events, polarizing figures (such as Greta Thunberg or Donald Trump), and the formation of counter-public networks. …”
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Force majeure need for humanity to turn to nootechnology and nooecology by K. V. Korsak, Y. K. Korsak

“…Unfortunately, it did not attract the attention of humanity, like the emotional & populist eco-declarations of Greta Thunberg, a girl from Sweden. Conclusion. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope to use the little-known project "Plan S" to inform humanity about the existence of saving nootechnologies and noosciences. …”
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“Children’s” Eco-strikes as a Technology for the Formation of a New World Order and Russia’s Interests by P. I. Pashkovsky, E. V. Kryzhko

“…The genesis, essence and purpose of the «Greta Thunberg project» and mass environmental actions in the context of the formation of a New World Order and the interests of Russia have been characterized. …”
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Fridays for Future's Disruptive Potential: An Inconvenient Youth Between Moderate and Radical Ideas by Jens Marquardt

“…Three years later, Greta Thunberg's school strike outside the Swedish parliament inspired thousands of students around the world to protest against their political leaders' inability to adequately respond to climate change. …”
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