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.
GRETA THUNBERGYou say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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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 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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You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future.
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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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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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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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In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of mankind.
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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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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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But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.
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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis.
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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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Our relationship with nature is broken. But relationships can change. When we protect nature – we are nature protecting itself.
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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.
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The real power belongs to the people.
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