With 1,000km between us, we talked over the phone about how we could get our new reality to work.

Greta cries throughout the film. But…” She pauses. The situation called for more than words and feelings. All everyone suddenly cares about is Greta, Greta and Greta. She said it was hard to convince them to change their diets at first, because “They were like, ‘don’t worry, someone will invent something in the future – people have this under control’.” Continuing, she said “But the more I read about this, the more I realized we don’t have this under control, so then I started to become worried, and I talked to my parents about it. She wasn’t expecting this. They write worse things than that, which is lucky for us, because when we report the school to the Swedish schools inspectorate we’re on a firm footing and there’s no doubt that the inspectorate will rule in our favour. She steps aside and starts crying. In mid-November there’s a big meeting at BUP. The question is why. 894646.

He feels like an awful parent for not putting his foot down and saying “No” from the start.

We almost don’t even need to ration the burning of calories any more. “Let’s go home now,” he says. But at home she falls apart, crashes. We’ve explored all other tactics. There are a lot of people in the park for the march and the rally. Then she grasps the microphone and starts speaking. Svante is boiling gnocchi. The host introduces Greta and she walks slowly but steadily into the middle of the stage. A few months later we walked home from the airport shuttle having met Svante and Beata off a flight from Rome.“You just released 2.7 tonnes of CO2,” Greta says to Svante.

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“Please eat,” Svante and I say in chorus. #Repost @planbokssmart.se with @get_repost ・・・ Det här är en bok som alla borde läsa.

Then with every ounce of pent-up frustration and powerlessness. Everyone with an interest in the future of this planet should read this book.” –David Mitchell, The Guardian When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister Beata… Her body temperature is low and her pulse and blood pressure clearly indicate signs of starvation. It is extremely important that the consistency is perfect, otherwise it won’t be eaten.

And it takes a long time. • This is an edited extract from Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena and Beata Ernman, Greta and Svante Thunberg, published by Penguin on 5 March (£16.99). Svante and I avoid looking at each other. Time is much shorter than we think. Greta picks up a bun and sniffs it.

Det är ingen hemlighet att jag har försökt att stå upp för viktiga frågor under årens lopp. But this is Greta’s thing. We get death threats on social media, excrement through the letter box, and social services report that they have received a great number of complaints against us as Greta’s parents. “Are you hungry, Greta? She appears to be at ease up there. Their understanding of the situation is different. When students openly point and laugh at you – even though you’re walking alongside your parent – then things have gone too far. Vi har helt enkelt inte inte hunnit fram dit än. Name a single celebrity who is prepared to sacrifice the luxury of flying around the world!”. The sisters hail from a …

Some say that she alone has done more for the climate than politicians and the mass media have in years. Everything Svante and I do upsets her and in our company she can lose control. He’s holding a white plastic bag.

Then you can post it on your social media.”. Ett samhälle jag inte vill ha eller vara en del av.
Beata sits with Greta one day in front of parliament. Greenpeace is far from alone in offering its support.

Before the lesson is over the teacher announces that on Monday there will be a substitute teaching the class, because she’s going to a wedding over the weekend, in Connecticut, right outside of New York.

She looks stressed. “I urge all of you to do the same. Vi är inte ensamma. According to IMDb, she has appeared in a number of TV movies, and most recently had a role in an episode of the TV series The Simple Heist in 2017. The next day is Saturday 8 September. She devotes the whole Christmas break to telling us about unspeakably awful incidents. 15k Followers, 194 Following, 74 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from B E A T A (@beataernman) After two months of not eating Greta has lost almost 10kg, which is a lot when you are rather small to begin with. To order a copy go to guardianbookshop.com. I’ve cleared my calendar and put work on the back burner. It is well-known that Greta is vegan for the sake of the environment, but it was Greta who made that dietary choice and enacted it on the rest of her family, not the other way around. We try to find habits that work.

Round and round. She sits there holding it, tries to open her mouth, but… can’t. Rösta på dom som om det gällde livet. “You only care about Greta. Greta stands by the wall and there are a dozen people around her. We take our time.

Then she nods an almost invisible goodbye to Dad and, with the sign in her arms, staggers around the corner towards the government block where she stops and leans the sign against the greyish-red granite wall. Yesterday was the last day.