“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.”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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 re…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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 rea…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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 s…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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.”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Discredit, Mocking
“We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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 ca…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: 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 bette…”— Greta Thunberg, democracynow.orgTagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, meaningful