Climate change action—It’s a welfare responsibly too

WhenGreta Thunberg stopped attending school to take up her solitary vigil outside the Swedish parliament, in protest at the failure to act on climate change, something remarkable happened. A whole generation of children and young people were inspired by her tenacity, her clarity of purpose and her message (Frischmann, 2019). Adults took notice. At the World Economic Forum and at the UN’s global climate summit in Poland, Greta couldn’t have been more focussed, telling world leaders that ‘they are stealing [children’s] future in front of their very eyes’ (Winston, 2019, p. 2). What followed were the mass protests by young people against the appalling inaction on climate change. ‘Every week, thousands of Belgian youth are marching on the EU capitol of Brussels,’ reported Andrew Winston (2019) for the Harvard Business Review.