Questionnaire
Questionnaire
1. Choose the correct option: What was the earliest definition of climate change that
Thunberg heard?
a. A natural phenomenon
b. Global warming and pollution
c. Something humans had created by their way of living
d. The result of industrialization
2. Choose the correct option: What were some of the earliest instances of advice
Thunberg was given to stop climate change?
a. Turn off lights and recycle paper
b. Stop radioactive waste from leaking into water
c. Use less electricity and water
d. Learn to live with less money
3: Choose the correct option: Which of these best describes her feelings with respect to
climate change when she was about 10 years old?
a. joy
b. hope
c. anger
d. incredulity
4. Fill in the blanks: What illnesses was she diagnosed with as a teenager? Asperger
syndrome, OCD and selective mutism.
5. Answer in one line: In what way does her inability to understand the adult world affect
her personally?make her see the world in a different way
6. Fill in the blank: Rich countries need to reduce emissions by 15% annually.
7. Fill in the blanks: What important reports and resolutions on climate change does
Thunberg refer to? Greenhouse gases and extinction rate
8. List: What groups of people does she hold to blame the most for the climate crisis?
Our leaders.
9. Fill in the blanks: We are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction with about 200 species
goes extinct every single day.
10. Answer in one sentence: What does Thunberg mean by “climate justice”?
Rich country need to get down to 0 emissions so that people in poor country have a
chance to live and build infrastructure.
11. Choose the correct option: What, according to her, is the cause of apathy among
common people regarding climate change?
a. lack of money
b. lack of facts
c. lack of infrastructure
d. lack of will
12. Answer in one sentence: Why does Thunberg invoke her hypothetical children and
grandchildren?
Because what we don’t do now will affect our children and grandchildren.
13. Which is these is part of Thunberg’s activism:
a. striking outside the Swedish government
b. asking her classmates to not attend school
c. becoming a climate scientist
d. stopping to eat properly
14. Answer in one line: Why is school education not important to her as far as climate
change is concerned?
Because she says school education abut climate changes means nothing to us.
15. According to her, what do we need more than we need hope?
a. less extinction
b. more knowledge
c. less plastic usage
d. more action