Today I am launching the campaign #DearGreenpeace with @letsreplanet which asks Greenpeace International to drop their opposition to nuclear energy & support young people in securing their future. Sign my petition Why nuclear gives me hope for a better future.🧵

At 13 I became an environmental activist following in the footsteps of @GretaThunberg striking in front of my local city hall. Like so many school strikers, I was desperate to see change & scared for my future. /2

Then something amazing happened, the movement blew up, we were millions strong on the streets across the globe, the call to action sounded, it was power! But nothing changed. I watched friend after friend slip deeper into apathy and anxiety. We needed solutions. /3

I searched for solutions but when I turned to older people that were joining the movement, they talked about subsistence farming & living with nature. From my years growing up in Kenya, I knew this was not the solution they thought it to be. It equaled suffering. /4

I was born dangerously premature & the modern society I was born into in Sweden allowed me to survive. I knew that many in developing communities weren't so lucky. We had to embrace modernity & reject a return to the past. /5

I continued to look for solutions, eventually finding nuclear. Apart from basics at school & hints of negativity from media, I hadn't heard much about. I came to discover not only had it helped Sweden reduce it's emissions but it provided the power to save my young life. /6

Nuclear energy provides plentiful cheap & green energy for 32 countries globally, unlocking so much of our modern sustainable world. So at 16 I joined the pro nuclear movement & it was life changing. /7

Here was a group of people just as afraid for the future as me, but with an actual, concrete, achievable solution, it wasn’t just buzzwords like “change the system” where no one could agree on what it meant. /8

It was a life changing experience, going from the anxiety and desperation of movements like Fridays for Future to the hope and realism of the pro nuclear environmental movement. It was doable, and it was sustainable, not just for the planet, but for humanity. /9

Join me in embracing nuclear energy & calling on @Greenpeace to drop their opposition to this vital #ClimateCrisis solution. Sign my petition today!

@letsreplanet @Greenpeace Former @GreenpeaceUK energy campaigner here… I completely agree with you. @Greenpeace can’t declare a ‘climate emergency’ and then oppose the most practical and proven ways to address it. It’s time for boldness and pragmatism, not clinging to obsolete ideas.