“I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if the house was on fire—because it is.”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Hopeful, Panic, Fear
“I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Crisis, Safe
“According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), we are less than 12 years away from not being able to undo our mistakes. In that time, unprecedented changes in all aspects of society need to have taken place, including a reduction of our .CO2 emissions by at least 50%.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Crisis, CO2 Emissions
“We live in a strange world where children must sacrifice their own education in order to protest against the destruction of their future. Where the people who have contributed the least to this crisis are the ones who are going to be affected the most.”Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Crisis
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying.…”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Existential Crisis, Crisis, Ocean
“We have not treated this crisis as a crisis; we see it as another problem that needs to be fixed. But it is so much more than that. It’s an existential crisis, more important than anything else.”Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Existential Crisis, Crisis
“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
“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