In case you’re still wondering why there’s no real change in sight… We can’t solve a crisis unless we treat it like a crisis.
GRETA THUNBERGWe 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.
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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Humanity is a civilisation in the middle of the ocean, and we are right now setting fire to our boat”
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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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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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I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange.
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We 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.
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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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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis.
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The fight for a future doesn’t end here – this is just the beginning.
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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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All we have to do is to wake up and change.
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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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You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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People keep doing what they do because the vast majority doesn’t have a clue about the consequences of our everyday life. And they don’t know the rapid changes required.
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Regrowth takes time the world does not have to solve climate change
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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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The fight is not over yet. The fight is only over when the people say it’s over.
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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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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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In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of mankind.
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The time has come to voice our fears and be honest with wider society.
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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 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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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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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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