It’s Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change

During a recent speech at the European Union parliament, the teenage activist Greta Thunberg began her talk as follows: “My name is Greta Thunberg. I’m 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I want you to panic.”

Her reasoning goes like this: While panicking is counterproductive when there’s nothing to panic about, it serves an important purpose when there’s a genuine cause for alarm. Panicking about vaccines causing autism or commercial airliners leaving chemtrails at 35,000 feet is an obvious waste of energy. But if you find yourself alone in the Alaskan wilderness and an angry grizzly charges at you, it would be suicidal not to freak out.

Read Medium’s One Zero story Phil Torres - “It’s Time to Rebel Against the Existential Threat of Climate Change.”