in the last week she joined protests outside the white house, testified before congress and has met with former president barack obama. turned out that was just a warm-up for the main event. today millions of kids and teens in more than 150 countries joined greta s call and skipped school to demand action on climate change. in germany, more than 1.4 million took to the streets with 100,000 demonstrating in berlin. hundreds of thousands marched in australia making it one of the largest in that country s history. in mumbai, children stood in the rain chanting oxygen is free because of the trees. in tanzania, marching bands cleared the way for kids carrying signs through the streets. in warsaw, rio, l.a., the message was there is no planet b. there were protests in tiny islands in the south pacific as well as scientific outposts in antarctica. in this country, kids took part in protests all 50 states,
at first greta didn t have a lot of support. her parents tried to dissuade her. none of her classmates wanted to join her. even members of parliament said they said her protest has merit but she really should not go playing hooky. to be honest, she was fairly used to being alone. she was a painfully introverted 15-year-old. at the time, she said nothing was happening in my life. i was always the girl in the back who doesn t say anything. i thought i couldn t make a difference because i was too small. despite feeling that way, she kept showing up at parliament with her sign. she showed up every day for three weeks in order to raise awareness about climate change. eventually she was not alone. people started joining her. the movement spread so far and wide, students staged demonstrations in germany, switzerland, and belgium. by january of this year, greta was invited to speak at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. she arrived with her sign and this message.
juul record.of you on his phone. they took $12.8 billion from big tobacco. juul marketed mango, mint, and menthol flavors, addicting kids to nicotine. five million kids now using e-cigarettes. the fda said juul ignored the law with misleading health claims. now juul is pushing prop c, to overturn san francisco s e-cigarette protections. say no to juul, no to big tobacco, no to prop c. in august, 2018, greta thunberg decided she was going to sit outside the swedish parliament and demand action on climate change instead of going to school. she painted a sign that said school strike for climate. off she went. at first greta didn t have a lot of support.