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WORLD NEWS
Greta Thunberg
Gives Power Speech at the
United Nations Climate Action Summit
The 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg
speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in New
York on September 23 stormed at the world leaders accusing
them of inaction and half-measures.
Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in
the beginning of a mass extinction and all
you can talk about is money and fairytales of
eternal economic growth. How dare you!
For more than 30 years, the science has been
crystal clear. How dare you continue to look
away and come here saying that you’re
doing enough when the politics and solutions
needed are still nowhere in sight.
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Here is her complete speech:
My message is that we’ll be watching you.
You say you hear us and that you understand
the urgency, but no matter how sad and
angry I am, I do not want to believe that.
Because if you really understood the
situation and still kept on failing to act then
you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should
be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet,
you all come to us young people for hope. How dare
you! The popular idea of cutting our emissions
in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent
chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the
risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions
beyond human control.
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. Fifty percent may be acceptable to you, but
those numbers do not include tipping points,
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