{"id":69000,"date":"2019-12-11T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69000"},"modified":"2019-12-11T16:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:50:12","slug":"for-the-youth-out-there-you-absolutely-can-make-a-significant-impact-difference-check-out-who-the-time-person-of-the-year-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/12\/11\/for-the-youth-out-there-you-absolutely-can-make-a-significant-impact-difference-check-out-who-the-time-person-of-the-year-is\/","title":{"rendered":"For the youth out there: You absolutely CAN make a significant impact\/difference! Check out who the TIME Person of the Year is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5746458\/youngest-time-person-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Greta Thunberg is the youngest TIME Person of the Year ever. Here\u2019s how she made history <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from time.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-69002\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ThePowerOfYouth-GretaThunberg2019-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The politics of <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/climate-change-solutions\/\">climate action<\/a>\u00a0are as entrenched and complex as the phenomenon itself, and Thunberg has no magic solution. But she has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change. She has offered a moral clarion call to those who are willing to act, and hurled shame on those who are not. She has persuaded leaders, from mayors to Presidents, to make commitments where they had previously fumbled: after she spoke to Parliament and demonstrated with the British environmental group Extinction Rebellion, the U.K. passed a law requiring that the country eliminate its carbon footprint. She has focused the world\u2019s attention on environmental injustices that young indigenous activists have been protesting for years. Because of her, hundreds of thousands of teenage \u201cGretas,\u201d from Lebanon to Liberia, have skipped school to lead their peers in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5682404\/global-climate-strike\/\">climate strikes<\/a>\u00a0around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69001\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TimePersonOfTheYear2019-GretaThunberg.jpg\" alt=\"Young people! You CAN and will make a big impact\/difference!\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TimePersonOfTheYear2019-GretaThunberg.jpg 776w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TimePersonOfTheYear2019-GretaThunberg-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/TimePersonOfTheYear2019-GretaThunberg-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greta Thunberg is the youngest TIME Person of the Year ever. Here\u2019s how she made history &#8212; from time.com Excerpt: The politics of climate action\u00a0are as entrenched and complex as the phenomenon itself, and Thunberg has no magic solution. But she has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,95,74,353,406,279,226,201,330,480,38,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-global-globalization","category-leadership","category-moralsvalues","category-motivation","category-participation","category-passions","category-policy","category-political-science","category-society","category-uk","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69006,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69000\/revisions\/69006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}