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.
GRETA THUNBERGThe 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.
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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The fight is not over yet. The fight is only over when the people say it’s over.
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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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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 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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The real power belongs to the people.
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But the real hope comes from the people. And it all starts with awareness.
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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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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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Inequality and climate injustice is already the heart of the climate crisis.
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In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of mankind.
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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 think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange.
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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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