“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.org
“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.org
“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.org
“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.org
“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.”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“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. Enti…”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“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…”— Greta Thunberg, youtube.com
“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.”— Greta Thunberg, plantbasednews.org
“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.”— Greta Thunberg, apnews.com
“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%.”— Greta Thunberg, bbc.com
“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.”— Greta Thunberg, web.archive.org
“I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?”— Greta Thunberg, theguardian.com
“'Why aren’t you panicking?' read a handwritten sign in Foley Square at New York City’s Youth Climate Strike this past Friday. It was a question clearly aimed at adults who have ignored the climate crisis for so long that it will be catastrophic by 2030, posed by children who fear they have no real f…”— Ella Riley-Adams, Shana Jade Trajanoska, Vogue, vogue.com
“Thunberg told representatives of 110 U.N. member states. '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.'”— Emily Specter, vogue.com
“More than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades.”— David Wallace-Wells, amazon.com
“Additional Vocals by: Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Halsey, Zac Brown, Brendon Urie, Hailee Steinfeld, Wiz Khalifa, Snoop Dogg, Kevin Hart, Adam Levine, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth, SIA, Miley Cyrus, Lil Jon, Rita Ora, Miguel, Katy Perry, Lil Yachty, Ed Sheeran, Meghan Trainor, Joel Embiid, Tory Lane…”— Lil Dicky, youtube.com
“Bethenny: Isn't it like Indian Summer? Carole: Well some call it global warming.”— Bethenny Frankel, Herself, Bethenny Frankel, imdb.com
“When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying. When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying.…”— Ben Shapiro, amazon.com