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Greta Thunberg, environmental activist, has published a guide for combating climate changes, reports Jill Lawless. Associated Press (AP). Titled The Climate Book, the volume—featuring contributions from more than 100 acclaimed writers, activists and scientists—will be released in Britain on October 27 and in the United States in early 2023.

According to a Liste ShareThunberg, Twitter contributors: Novelists Margaret Atwood Amitav Ghosh, climate scientist Saleemul Huq, Kenyan environmentalist Wanjira Mathai, and World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. As Lucy Knight Reports The GuardianThe 19-year old activist will also offer her take. Greenwashing, which occurs when companies make false or misleading claims about their “environmentally friendly” products and practices.

Thunberg views greenwashing to be both a serious problem as well as a source of hope. Per the book’s Penguin Random House Listing, she hopes to expose the unethical practice and reveal “the extent to which we have been kept in the dark,” thereby pushing people to acknowledge the full extent of climate change and address the issue head on.

“Unless we are able to connect these dots, we will not find sustainable solutions to the climate and ecological crisis,” says Thunberg in a statement quoted by the Bookseller’s Sian Bayley. “Once we are all given the full picture, we will be able to act.”

In the statement, Chloe Currens, a senior commissioning editor at Penguin Press U.K., says that Thunberg’s passages on world leaders’ inaction will “render today’s greenwashing breathtakingly clear.” The editor describes the teenager’s “call to climate justice [as] unignorable,” adding that the book is “alive with moral purpose, which aims to change the climate conversation forever.”

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2003, Thunberg roseIn 2018, she founded the movement, which brought her fame Fridays for the Future. At 15 years old, she went to the Three weeks preceding the Swedish election sitting outside the country’s parliament building with a sign reading Skolstrejk för Klimatet (Climate Strikes at School).

Though the protest was initially a solo venture, the number of Thunberg’s supporters grew each day, with the teen’s efforts quickly garnering attention from the international press. After the election, she continued her school-skipping protests every other Friday, inspiring hundreds and thousands of students around to host theirs. Your demonstrations.

Thunberg’s comments about climate change have made her more than a few powerful enemies, among them former U.S. president Donald J. TrumpBrazilian president Jair Bosonaro, the latter of whom called her a “brat”In 2019. In 2019, the 16 year-old activist became Time magazine’s youngest-ever Person of the YearShe was invited to deliver speeches at the event. World Economic ForumThe European Parliament.

Thunberg famously travelled across the Atlantic in August 2019 Emission-free yachtTo speak in New York at the United Nations Climate summit. In front of a room of world leaders she gave an address. Impassioned Comment: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. … We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairyStories of eternal life Economic growth. How dare you.”

The Climate Book will be Thunberg’s fourth publication. Her published works include Scenes from the Heart Our House is on FireBoth were co-authored and edited by her parents and younger sibling. There is no one too small to make a differenceA collection of speeches.

“Greta has proven herself to be one of our finest and most galvanizing new writers,” says Currens in the statement. “In a series of sharp, insightful and impassioned chapters, which knit the book’s different parts together, she shares her own experiences and responds to what she’s learned.”