Humanity is a civilisation in the middle of the ocean, and we are right now setting fire to our boat”
GRETA THUNBERGThere are no climate leaders. The only ones who can change this are you and me. All of us, together.
More Greta Thunberg Quotes
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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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To protect, restore and rewild the living world is probably the most effective solution we have at hand to fight both the climate- and ecological emergencies.
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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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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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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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You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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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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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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All we have to do is to wake up and change.
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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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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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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 fight for a future doesn’t end here – this is just the beginning.
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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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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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