Greta Thunberg
Daily Comment
The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
Forget diplomatic language—it’s a moment for some home truths.
Year Off
Greta Thunberg’s Happy Crusade
From a Stockholm safe house, the teen-age activist discusses her disappointment in Biden and Merkel, her new documentary, and pranking her parents.
Under Review
How Greta Thunberg Transformed Existential Dread Into a Movement
The memoir “Our House Is on Fire” details how climate-change activism helped Thunberg’s family, beset by psychological diagnoses, remake itself into one that has purpose and agency.
Annals of a Warming Planet
“Working Together Is What Humans Are Built to Do”: Social Trust Is Key to Stemming the Coronavirus Crisis
A recent U.N. report said that nations “with higher levels of social trust and connections are more resilient in the face of natural disasters and economic crises.”
Daily Comment
The Star Power of Jane Fonda’s Climate-Change Arrests
The actress and activist spent the eve of her eighty-second birthday protesting alongside friends and fellow-celebrities, and earning her latest arrest, in an ongoing campaign to raise awareness of climate change.
News Desk
The Pure Spirit of Greta Thunberg is the Perfect Antidote to Donald Trump
She is committed to the foremost emergency of our time, to the science behind it, and to the people who are working every day to try to rapidly change our energy systems and consumption patterns.
Culture Desk
Children Lead the Way: A Gallery of Youth-Made Climate-Strike Signs
These signs provide a visual counterpoint to the individual voices of our children as they plead with the powers that be to act, and act responsibly.
Our Columnists
Greta Thunberg Is the Anti-Trump
The climate activist’s message of logic and a belief in moral action lands precisely because we are living in a time dominated by a man who acts on the belief that the world is rancid to the core.
Dispatch
New York’s Original Teen-Age Climate Striker Welcomes a Global Movement
For the past forty Fridays, Alexandria Villaseñor has kept a lonely climate vigil. This week, the fourteen-year-old had company.
Cultural Comment
New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March
What had brought them here? Everyone’s answer was the same, the only one possible: a sense of existential threat.
Photo Booth
The Faces of Young Protesters at New York City’s Climate Strike
Crowds gathered at Foley Square, in Manhattan, as part of an international, youth-led demonstration demanding action on climate change.
Double Take
The Global Climate Strike and Environmentalism in The New Yorker
A selection of The New Yorker’s significant pieces on climate change and the new age of student climate activism.
Comment
Summits, Strikes, and Climate Change
There are positive signs that the politics of climate change are changing in America. And giving up isn’t really an option.
Daily Comment
The Uncanny Power of Greta Thunberg’s Climate-Change Rhetoric
Britain’s political establishment has long congratulated itself on its commitment to the environment. On a visit to Parliament, the teen-age activist challenged this record.
