Sometimes NOT doing things – like just sitting down outside the parliament – speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.
GRETA THUNBERGWe can’t call for climate justice while advocating for policies and phase-out-dates based on targets that exclude aspect of equity and historic emissions.
More Greta Thunberg Quotes
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That we live in a post-truth society today, and that we don’t care, that we have lost empathy. We have stopped caring for each other in a way. We have stopped thinking long-term and sustainable. And that’s something that goes much deeper than just climate crisis deniers.
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You need to listen to us, us who cannot vote. You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren. What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.
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We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things. Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
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But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.
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I think weakness, in a way, can be also needed because we don’t have to be the loudest, we don’t have to take up the most amount of space, and we don’t have to earn the most money… We need to care about each other more.
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Humans are part of nature, and if we are not doing well, then nature is not doing well, because we are nature.
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There are no climate leaders. The only ones who can change this are you and me. All of us, together.
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We children are doing this to wake the adults up. We children are doing this for you to put your differences aside and start acting as you would in a crisis. We children are doing this because we want our hopes and dreams back.
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We understand that the world is very complex and that change doesn’t happen overnight. But you’ve now had more than three decades of blah blah blah. How many more do you need?
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Humanity is a civilisation in the middle of the ocean, and we are right now setting fire to our boat”
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We don’t want these things done by 2050, 2030 or even 2021, we want this done now – as in right now.
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My generation, and those coming after, are the future. We deserve to be fought for. We deserve climate justice, social justice and equity.
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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis.
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You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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The eyes of future generations are upon you. No more excuses.
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