From: https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it

It would be an immeasurable help if Greta Thunberg upped her game, specifically by telling her age mates what she knows about the breadth, depth, and severity of the climate crisis. 

She calmly told Daily Show host Trevor Howard that young people are responding because they recognize a “direct threat,” and they know that the world is getting warmer, ice is melting, and that “it will get worse,” but she went on to say that, in her experience, “the awareness is not as it should be” and that people still “don’t understand how severe this crisis actually is.”

She hasn’t yet made the severity explicit, sharing what she almost certainly knows about it. 

She’s approached it, referring to feedback loops leading to an irreversible threat beyond human control, with implications for the future of civilization. She’s approached it in saying that people are already dying at…