Overview
- Obama’s social posts on April 22, Earth Day, promoted Neubauer’s “incredible story” on X and Instagram, with the X post reaching more than 11 million people.
- He introduced her as one of the Obama Foundation Leaders and urged his followers to watch her account of choosing to act on climate.
- The video features her four-week Antarctic voyage aboard the research sailboat Malizia Explorer and describes Antarctica as a place of hope protected by an international treaty.
- Neubauer recounts a post‑school trip to Tanzania that exposed water shortfalls and spurred her activism, followed by helping build Germany’s Fridays for Future movement in 2018.
- She cites the 2021 “Neubauer et al. vs. Germany” ruling affirming intergenerational rights and notes Germany’s planned coal exit by 2038 while warning of weaker targets and calling for mass civic action over lone “eco-heroes.”