“I tried to make the others in the group join me...but no one was really interested. So then I decided I was going to do it alone. And even if no one was joining me, I was going to do it.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, School Strike, Persistence
“Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope.’ But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Hope, Panic
“If I would have been normal like everyone else, I could just continue like everyone else. And get stuck in the social game, and just continue like before. But since I was different, I see the world from a different perspective, I see things very black and white.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Perspective
“I was so sad because the world was so wrong, everything was so wrong, and then I thought there is no point in living…I became depressed, I stopped eating, and I stopped talking, and I stopped going to school.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Depression
“Why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Future
“The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can, because all that matters is to win, to get power. That must come to an end, we must stop competing with each other, we need to cooperate and work together and to share the resources of the planet in a fair…”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Air, Ocean, Soil
“You can't just sit around waiting for hope to come, you're acting like spoiled irresponsible children. You don't seem to understand that hope is something you have to earn. And if you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted…”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Childish, Denial, inaction
“Many people are trying to make the school strikes a question of whether we are promoting truancy or whether we should go back to school or not. They make up all sorts of conspiracies and call us puppets who cannot think for ourselves. They are desperately trying to remove the focus from the climate…”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, truancy, Conspiracies
“Tens of thousands of children or schools are striking for the climate on the streets of Brussels. Hundreds of thousands are doing the same all over the world. We are school striking because we have done our homework. And some of us are here today. People always tell us that they are so hopeful. They…”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, School Strike, Brussels
“Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you 'solve' the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you 'solve' a war? How do you 'solve' going to the moon for the first time? How do you 'solve' inventing new…”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Europe, Crisis
“You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected…”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, False Hope
“The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying…”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Europe, Crisis, Fossil Fuels
“During the last six months I have travelled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Europe
“I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big; I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and…”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Future, Dystopia
“Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized…”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, End of Civilization