Bella Ramsey and The Green Rider Movement

As world leaders boarded their private jets home from Sharm El Sheikh, noticeably absent among them was youth activist Greta Thunberg, who in an interview before the conference accused world leaders and people in power of using the whole affair to grab attention, “using many different types of greenwashing.”

Reading her words, I couldn’t help but think about a group of protestors who last month grabbed the world’s attention in a more radical way than world leaders showing their faces at COP. I’m talking about SoupGate, MashedPotatoGate, and all the other protest actions that were sparked by Just Stop Oil protesters throwing a tin of tomato soup over Van Gogh’s sunflower painting in London.

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We are all crew! Children and young people are most affected by the climate crisis. The film takes three recent disasters from Pakistan, Germany and South Africa as examples.

Just Stop Oil

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil, the movement that gained fame for their protests in museums over the past month, are now moving on to street art.

The group has sprayed multiple buildings in central London with orange paint Monday morning.

(not sure why the quality's so bad, hopefully isn't so for other people...)

I first heard this concept of "passive support" vs "active support," or, activism, when I first joined the Sunrise Movement. Right now, in my climate activism, I have been discouraged by how few people in my area, especially young people, are organizing. It isn't because people don't care, necessarily, they are just passive in their support. While ranting about the climate crisis (which, believe me, I am as guilty of as anyone,) is satisfying in the moment, why not use that energy to mobilize and build a moment and community fighting for our future? Are there climate actions you could organize in your community? Are there movements you can join?