In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of mankind.
GRETA THUNBERGwhat we women want today – and every day- is fundamental equal rights, not congratulations or celebrations.
More Greta Thunberg Quotes
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Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.
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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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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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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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This climate law is surrender – because nature doesn’t bargain and you cannot make ”deals” with physics. And we will not allow you to surrender on our future.
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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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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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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 have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You’ve run out of excuses and we’re running out of time. We’ve come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not.
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Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it.
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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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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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The fight is not over yet. The fight is only over when the people say it’s over.
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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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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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