Is it our duty to be activists? Luisa Neubauer is 25 and from Hamburg, Germany. She is an organiser of the school strike for climate movement. She believes we can all make a difference.
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‘Do something and you can move mountains’
Is it our duty to be activists? Luisa Neubauer is 25 and from Hamburg, Germany. She is an organiser of the school strike for climate movement. She believes we can all make a difference.
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Luisa says she "never planned to be a climate activist".
When she was 13, she learned about the greenhouse effect. She was upset because it was an important problem. But at school, it was only ever in one geography lesson. Luisa knew she had to do something.
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After school, Luisa went to university. She studied geography. When she was there, she found out shocking facts about the climate.
She knew that people needed to make a change.
In 2018, she met Greta Thunberg. Greta told leaders they were "acting like children". Luisa agreed. Nobody was making change fast enough.
Lusia heard about Greta's school strike. She joined in.
In March 2019, she led 300,000 German students on the first ever Fridays for Future strike. By September, 1.4 million people went every week.
Luisa had a message as she led the march. Her message: "Think we should be at school?" The "climate strike is the biggest lesson of all."
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Is it our duty to be activists?
Some say
No. Being an activist is hard. Not everybody has time or money to stop school and work to strike. We have leaders who should do the right thing for us!
Others think
Yes! We cannot just do nothing. Activism doesn't always mean going on a march. It can be as easy as talking about it with our friends and teachers!
‘Do something and you can move mountains’
German climate activist Luisa Neubauer looks on as she and other activists give a press statement in Luetzerath, western Germany, on September 25, 2021 © Getty