00:08I've been a climate activist for a long time, and you know, I make the individual lifestyle choices. I drive
00:16an electric car, I recycle, I eat less meat, I get rid of plastic, and so forth.
00:22But I'm aware of the fact that individual choices like that can't be brought to scale fast enough to get
00:31us where we need to be.
00:32So I was asking myself, well, what can I do more?
00:36And Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish student who went on the school strike every Friday, she really moved me.
00:46And then I read a book by Naomi Klein, her last book called On Fire, The Burning Case for a
00:55Green New Deal.
00:56And those two things made me realize that I had to put myself on the line to join with the
01:05things that the students are doing and Greta's doing to heighten the sense of urgency.
01:16What young people are doing is extremely important and inspiring.
01:21It's their future that we are compromising, and we can't let them do this on their own.
01:28And I'm a grandma, and so I want to stand with them and help lift their message.
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