... to find the whole Greta Thunberg thing a bit uncomfortable?

[NotMyRealName11]

She's obviously a passionate and highly intelligent young woman, she's expressing her views, and she seems happy.

But I feel that it's a lot of pressure for her, especially given her history. I hope it is not too much.

I absolutely accept that different situations can have a different effect for different people... and for her, this seems to be therapeutic. But I would be worried for my daughter if she were dealing with this pressure.

We seem to be missing Greta's message about climate change. As parents, are there creative ways we can respond and help our own children to be prepared for their future affected by climate change, as that is what they will really thank us for anyway ? It appears parents in Africa have found a way and if we looked at this issue from their viewpoint, we may realise why they are doing it. Living in a continent that has suffered the effects of imperial rule for ages and after looking for ways to benefit from true independence via education, they have realised why should their children be squeezed out via cost, from true international education that enables them all to discuss and learn about climate change together. This is continuously happening due to our colonial approach of expecting all children elsewhere to learn English to access international education, when the vast majority don't have access to industrial world education budgets to allow them to afford it. So since 2004 in many countries across Africa, they have been sending their children to schools that teach the international language Esperanto at one fifth the cost of English. The cost difference is because Esperanto was specially designed to be easy to learn, leaving all the irregular grammar, spelling etc behind, allowing children to enjoy accessing fluency in about a year, giving them confidence to also support their interest in other languages, which the very lucky ones might learn later. Their children use Esperanto everyday and so are being prepared to access international science projects, except we are so behind in this advance that we are holding up progress for all children everywhere. Lets just leave Greta alone for a moment and look at how we can help our children have the best chance of addressing this difficult issue in a practical way, that will benefit them far more than a million pounds. Now the government here has given its approval for teaching Esperanto in schools since 2017, there is no reason why our children should not benefit like those in Africa, enabling them to all join together in learning how to understand, co-operate and eventually overcome such a difficult problem. Certainly Greta will feel much better when she sees we are at last responding to the issue itself, and so eventually will all of our children.