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In the wake of Greta Thunberg’s iconic speech, we take a look at which celebrities are using their platforms to help change the future of our planet.
Last week, Greta Thunberg’s address to the UN’s Climate Action Summit shook the world.
During her speech, she excoriated world leaders for their lack of action and warned them that their failure to start doing something about it would be completely unforgivable in the eyes of future generations. Well, it certainly had an impact.
Cities across the globe have since been flooded with a fresh wave of climate strikes, hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand urgent action on the escalating ecological emergency. And it doesn’t stop there.
Now, celebrities are coming together in an effort to raise awareness of quite how serious the situation really is, starting charities and donating funds to the cause.
While many have used social media to get the message across, posting images of themselves partaking in various strikes around the world or sharing petitions for us to sign, others have gone the extra mile in order to show their support.
However, there are those who acknowledge that celebrity voices have power, and these are the ones using theirs to encourage us all to fight.
You probably know about Leonardo DiCaprio recently pledging $5M to help save the Amazon Rainforest, but what about Mark Ruffalo who co-founded the Solutions Project Organisation in 2011? Sharing DiCaprio’s same passion for the environment, Ruffalo’s mission is to ‘accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy by turning an impossible idea into a global movement.’
He still hasn’t given up, continuing to campaign against fracking and pioneering instant grantmaking for activists because, as he rightly believes, we no longer have time to waste.
