Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
GRETA THUNBERGThe real power belongs to the people.
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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.
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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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Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature – we are nature protecting itself.
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what we women want today – and every day- is fundamental equal rights, not congratulations or celebrations.
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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 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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All we have to do is to wake up and change.
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The real power belongs to the people.
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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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But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.
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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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Right here, Right now is where we draw the time, the world is not waking up, and change is coming, whether you like it or not.
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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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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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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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