“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…”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: 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.”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: 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.”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: 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.”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: 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.”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: 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?”— Greta Thunberg, ft.comTagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Future