She has been diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder and Asperger's syndrome. She herself seems not to have this ability she cannot shelter from her fear of the future. She did not understand our ordinary human ability to shelter ourselves from devastating worries by putting them out of our minds, stopping them from becoming obsessions, and so making it possible to get on with our lives.

'If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before?' (p. She could not understand why it did not fill the headlines every day. She first heard about climate change when she was about eight. In some of her speeches, she describes how her feelings originated. And they are fearless she told the European Economic and Social Committee that 'you're acting like spoiled, irresponsible children' (p. Her speeches express her anger without exaggeration. She is truly shocked and outraged at the world's lack of action on climate change. Thunberg is transparently honest about her thoughts and feelings. There is no sham emotion in these forceful expostulations. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.' 'How dare you!' (pp. They are plain, but sometimes they are strong: 'Our house is on fire' 'I want you to panic. The words contain no rhetorical flourishes, either. The power of her oratory lies in the words she uses, and those words are in the book.

'A whisper sometimes is louder than shouting', she says (p. She says what she has to say calmly and firmly. There are no theatrics when she speaks she does not raise her voice or exaggerate her emotions. Thunberg is a superb orator, though not in a classical style. How did this extraordinary achievement come about? A part of the answer can be seen in this book. One year later, she was a global celebrity addressing the UN General Assembly in New York. Just before this period started, Thunberg was a solitary schoolgirl sitting outside the Parliament Building in Stockholm with her home-made placard 'Skolstreijk för Klimatet' ('School strike for climate'). No One is Too Small to Make a Difference is a selection from the speeches given by Greta Thunberg over a period of about a year, from September 2018 to September 2019.

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