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From “The Guardian view on teenage activists”

I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future.

Global Warming Climate Change Shitting Future

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.

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?

Global Warming Climate Change Crisis Safe

From “'It's an existential crisis. Listen to scientists'”

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%.

Climate Change Global Warming Crisis CO2 Emissions

From “Swedish teen leads Belgian students on 7th climate march”

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.

Climate Change Global Warming Crisis

From “Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever”

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.…

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.

Global Warming Climate Change Existential Crisis Crisis

From “Greta Thunberg Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger & More To Deliver Speeches On Climate | TIME”

Yesterday I spent the day with the D-day veteran Charles Norman Shay at Omaha beach. It was a day I will never forget. Not only because of the unimaginable bravery and sacrifices made by those who gave their lives to defend the freedom and democracy of the world. But also because they managed to do…

Global Warming Climate Change Democracy D-Day Freedom

From “'She seems very happy'”

It is very moving to see everyone who is so passionate to march and strike. People of all ages, all generations. It is a very good day, I would say.

Climate Change Global Strike Global Warming

From ““We Are Striking to Disrupt the System””

Just unite behind the science. I’m not the one who’s saying these things. I’m not the one who we should be listening to. And I say that all the time. I say we need to listen to the scientists.

Global Warming Climate Change Science Scientists

When I’m really interested in something, I get super-focused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it. And that is very common for people on the autism spectrum. And yeah, and it just—I think that was one of the…

Global Warming Climate Change Focus Concentration Autism

I think when I—I think I was maybe 7, 8, 9 years old when I first heard about the problem. And then, of course, by time, I read about it more and more and sort of understood how important it was and how severe this crisis was. And so, it was around that age and maybe 10, 11, 12. I think I became…

Global Warming Climate Change School Strikes

My message to the young people of the world is that right now we are facing an existential crisis, I mean, the climate and ecological crisis, and it will have a massive impact on our lives in the future, but also now, especially in vulnerable communities. And I think that we should wake up, and we…

Global Warming Climate Change Existential Crisis Anger Action

Many climate and environmental activists are being attacked, and they are being, in some cases, even killed. And so I’m not the one who we should be focusing on in these cases. And it’s just horrible that you are trying to stand up for something that should be taken for granted—a living world and a…

Global Warming Climate Change

I think this movement has made a difference; otherwise, they wouldn’t be spending their time trying to discredit us and to mock us.

Global Warming Climate Change Discredit Mocking

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

Global Warming Climate Change Save the World playing by the rules

Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can no longer save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to…

Global Warming Climate Change oil Fossil Fuels world leaders

I shouldn’t be sitting here doing nothing, wasting my time, when I can actually have an impact. And then I sort of started to become better, and then I became a climate activist. And that helped a lot. And I think the more involved I became, the more involved I got in the climate movement, the…

Global Warming Climate Change meaningful

From “Greta Thunberg”

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilization, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how…

Climate Change Global Warming Climate Denial Existential Crisis

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.

Climate Change Global Warming School Strike Persistence

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