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Here are some snippets from TEDx Youth at Munchen. Lisa Neubauer is a climate activist, author and leader of the “Fridays For Future” school strike movement. With Greta Thunberg, Neubauer helped initiate “Fridays For Future,” the momentous international school strike movement that protests the lack of action on the climate crisis. She shares four first steps that anyone, regardless of age, can take to become a climate activist.
“I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challenge that was won by people like you and me,” says climate activist and Youth Council member Luisa Neubauer. She shares four steps that anyone, regardless of age, can take to become a climate activist. “This is not a job for a single generation. This is a job for humanity.”
