Name: 氣候活動家Greta Thunberg談運動的力量 (Climate activist Greta Thunberg on the power of a movement)
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JUDY WOODRUFF: A growing number of Americans are worried climate change is a real crisis.

That is one of the findings of a new poll by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family

It found that eight in 10 Americans believe human activity is fueling climate change,

and nearly 40 percent now consider it a crisis, a significant jump from just five years ago.

Yet fewer than 40 percent also believe that they will have to make major sacrifices to

But young people across the world are now mobilizing to push for urgent action.

William Brangham spoke today with the Swedish teenager who's helped galvanize this movement.

Our story is part of a special initiative called Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration

of more than 250 news outlets to enhance coverage of the climate story.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: The younger generation came to the White House today demanding that the

grownups inside stop acting like children.

They said, acknowledge that climate change is a crisis and act accordingly.

Among the crowd was 16-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden.

In the past four years, Thunberg, who has mild autism, has helped drive this youth climate

She repeatedly called out world leaders for their climate inaction, like here at the U.N.

GRETA THUNBERG, Climate Activist: We have come here to let them know that change is

coming, whether they like it or not, the people who rise to the challenge.

And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: And here, at the World Economic Conference, the yearly gathering of the wealthy

GRETA THUNBERG: At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories, but their financial

success has come with an unthinkable price tag.

And, on climate change, we have to acknowledge that we have failed.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Across Europe, Thunberg has helped spur demonstrations that are called

Fridays For Future, where schoolkids leave class to draw attention to climate change.

Thunberg arrived in the U.S. last month after crossing the Atlantic on a solar-powered sailboat.

She won't fly because of air travel's carbon output.

She's participating in climate events leading up to the United Nations General Assembly

in New York next week, where climate activists are planning mass rough protests on Friday.

I sat down with Thunberg today, and begin by asking her how she first learned about

GRETA THUNBERG: I was completely unaware of everything, like everyone else.

And I learned the basics, that the planet was warming because of increased greenhouse

gas emissions, and that would lead to -- that the global temperature would rise, there would

And I just thought that, if it's really as serious as they are saying it is, then why

So I started to read about it more and more.

And then I started to understand how acute it actually was and is.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Why do you think it is?

Because a lot of other people read those same studies and understand those same facts, and

yet they don't see it as the crisis that you see it as.

Why do you think other people don't appreciate it that way?

Many people seem to have this double moral that they say one thing and then do another

thing, that they say the climate crisis is very important, and yet they do nothing about

And if I know something, if I want to do something, then I go all in and I, like, walk the walk,

walk the talk, because I want to practice as I preach.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: You have helped galvanize young people all over the world to care about

Do you have a sense as to why young people in particular have so embraced this movement?

GRETA THUNBERG: It is probably because we are the ones who are going to be affected

And, for many, it seems so distant, but, for us, it seems less distant, because we are

the people who are going to live in the future.

We are those who are going to have to adapt from this crisis.

And so that's why I think a lot of people seem threatened about this, a lot of the young

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: There is seemingly so much evidence around us.

We see wildfires, droughts, heat waves, intensifying storms, melting in the Arctic and the Antarctic,

And yet, as we were discussing, the evidence is there before us, but it does seem that

the sense of urgency is not as intense as you feel it ought to be.

And I'm just curious why you think that is.

GRETA THUNBERG: I mean, of course, it could be many different things, but I think it is

And since no one else is behaving like this was a crisis, then we see that and we think,

then I should probably behave as they do.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Just go on with life as usual.

But, for me, I have -- I am on the autism spectrum, and I don't usually follow social

And I think that is a very strong reason why people just continue, because they don't see

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: You think your autism in some sense has given you an insight into this

or a way to act in response to this that others may not have?

GRETA THUNBERG: That could be, definitely.

WILLIAM BRANGHAM: As you know, we have a president here in the United States, who seems dismissive

of the science of climate change, and a political party, a major political party, that goes

He pulled out of the Paris climate accords.

But even the nations that did acknowledge the severity of the problem and signed on

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