Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
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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The time has come to voice our fears and be honest with wider society.
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The fight is not over yet. The fight is only over when the people say it’s over.
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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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I wonder, what will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing the climate chaos you knowingly brought upon them?
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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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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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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis.
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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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And in a world where everyone strives to act, think and look the same – being different is truly something to be proud of. that’s why I’m very proud to be austistic.
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The changes needed to safeguard future living conditions for all species won’t come from governments or businesses. It will come from best available science and public opinion. So its unto us. Spread the science.
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Well, I am telling you there is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from governments or corporations. It comes from the people.
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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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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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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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