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most feedback loops, additional
warming hidden by toxic air
pollution or the aspects of equity
and climate justice.
They also rely on my generation
sucking hundreds of billions of
tons of your CO2 out of the air
with technologies that barely
exist.
So a 50 percent risk is simply
not acceptable to us, we who have
to live with the consequences.
How dare you pretend that this
can be solved with just business
as usual and some technical
solutions? With today’s
emissions levels, that remaining
CO2 budget will be entirely gone
within less than eight and a half
years.
There will not be any solutions
or plans presented in line
with these figures here today,
because these numbers are too
uncomfortable and you are still
not mature enough to tell it like
it is.
You are failing us, but the
young people are starting to
understand your betrayal. The
eyes of all future generations are
upon you and if you choose to fail
us, I say: We will never forgive
you.
is where we draw the line. The
world is waking up and change
is coming, whether you like it or
not.
Thank you.
Who Is Greta Thunberg?
In August 2018, the teenager
Greta Thunberg first staged
a ‘School Strike for Climate’
outside Riksdag, the national
legislature and the supreme
decision-making body of
Sweden. At that time, then in
the ninth grade, Thunberg made
up her mind not to attend school
until the 2018 Sweden general
election on September 9 after
heatwaves and wildfires in the
country.
In March, almost 1.5 million
people, mostly youngsters,
from Germany, Japan, the
UK, Australia and many more
to join her #FridaysforFuture
demonstrations.
Greta has been missing school
every Friday to go along
protesting outside the Swedish
parliament.
Thunberg’s mother Malena
Ernman, a celebrated classical
music singer, has chosen to
travel by train and bicycle
in spite of flying to her
performances. Moreover,
the teenager has
persuaded her parents to
eat mostly vegan.
Thunberg and her sister
Beata were diagnosed with
autism and ADHD. Autism
a serious developmental
disorder that impairs the
ability to communicate
and interact. However,
overcoming her disability,
Thunberg became the
leader of a worldwide
movement. In many
interviews, Thunberg
said that she became an
activist not in spite of her
autism but because of it.
Recently Thunberg
together 15 other
youngsters filed a
lawsuit with the United
Nations Committee on
the Convention on the
Rights of the Child alleging
Germany, Argentina,
Brazil, France, and
Turkey was cognizant of
the negative impact on
the environment of their
carbon emissions and did
nothing to ward it off.
We will not let you get away
with this. Right here, right now
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