Greta Thunberg - Our House Is on Fire - Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

Mother Earth is at the ready backstage.

At any moment the curtain will rise.

We have to start talking about how we’re doing.

Because it’s up to us now.

It’s us against the darkness.

From mouth to mouth, from city to city, from nation to nation.

Organize.

Act.

Make ripples on the water.

It’s places, everyone.

It’s time to take your place on the stage.

Anita and Janne von Berens, Anna Melin, Camilla Berntsdotter Lindblom, Hanna Askered and Lära Med Djur, Björn Meder, Jiang Millington and Barn i Behov, Pär Holmgren.

Nils Erik Svedlund and the Stockholm Centre for Eating Disorders, Svenny Kopp, Kevin Anderson, Isak Stoddard, the staff at BUP Kungsholmen, Magdalena Mattson, Kerstin Avemo, Fredrik Kempe, Lina Martinsson, Helen Sjöholm and David Granditsky, Jenny Stiernstedt, Hundar Utan Hem, Leif Blixten Henriksson, Pernilla Thagaard, Stefan Sundström, Mårten Aglander, Jonas Gardell and Mark Levengood, Mina Dennert, Mats Bergström, Janne Bengtsson, Petronella Nettermalm, Sten Collander, Ola Ilstedt, Stina Wollter, Anders Wijkman, Özz Nûjen, Fredrik Marcus, Karin af Klintberg, Johan Ehrenberg, Alexandra Pascalidou, Staffan Lindberg, Björn Ferry, Heidi Andersson, Maja Hellsing, Jeanette Andersson, Mattias Goldman, Helle Klein, Nisse Landgren, Vicky von der Lancken, Kent Wisti, Anna Takanen, Cecilia Ekebjär, Rosanna Endre and Greenpeace Sverige, the staff at Oatly Sverige, Martin Hedberg, Malin Tärnström, Hanna Friman, Christoffer Hörnell, Susanna Jankovic, Tomas Törnkvist, Frida Boisen, Carl Schlyter, Rebecka Le Moine, Svenska Stråkensemblen, Oskar Johansson, Anders Amrén, Peter Edding, Helena Lex Norling, Djurens Rätt, Vi Står Inte Ut, WWF Sverige, Naturskyddsföreningen and our families.

An extra big thank you to Jonas Axelsson, Annie Murphy and everyone at Bokförlaget Polaris. And of course thank you to Elias Våhlund and Tom Goren, and to Sirkka Persson and the Staff at Kringlaskolan in Södertälje.

Greta Thunberg is a climate crisis activist from Sweden. In August 2018, she decided not to go to school one day, starting a strike outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions sparked a global movement to fight the climate crisis, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet. Greta has Asperger’s and considers it a gift which has enabled her to see the climate crisis in ‘black and white’. She has won the prestigious Prix Liberté, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and was selected as Time ’s 2019 Person of the Year. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference .

Together with her mother, the celebrated opera singer Malena Ernman, her sister, Beata Ernman, and her father, Svante Thunberg, she has dedicated her life to protecting the living planet.

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Originally published in Swedish as Scener ur hjärtat by Bokförlaget Polaris, Stockholm.

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