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We need to tackle two crises at once, whether we like it or not the world has changed, it looks completely different from how it did a few months ago and it will probably not look the same again and we are going to have to choose a new way forward.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This is a good opportunity to put out information that we think people should have access to.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The climate and ecological crisis is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced but for now (of course depending on where you live) we'll have to find new ways to create public awareness & advocate for change that don't involve too big crowds - listen to local authorities.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
You can join the #DigitalStrike for upcoming Fridays- post a photo of you striking with a sign and use the hashtag #ClimateStrikeOnline ! #fridaysforfuture #climatestrike #schoolstrike4climate, the climate and ecological crisis is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced but for now (of course depending on where you live) we'll have to find new ways to create public awareness & advocate for change that don't involve too big crowds - listen to local authorities.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For over one-and-a-half years we have been sacrificing our education to protest against your inaction.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We will not be satisfied with anything less than a science-based pathway which gives us the best possible chance to safeguard the future living conditions for humanity and life on earth as we know it.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Pretending that a law that no one has to follow ... is a law. Pretending that you can be a climate leader and still go on building and subsidizing new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When your house is on fire, you don't wait a few more years to start putting it out. And yet this is what the Commission is proposing today.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Here you are, trying to create laws and policies once again ignoring it. Pretending that your plan or policy disregarding the united science will somehow solve the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced, pretending that a law that no one has to follow ... is a law. Pretending that you can be a climate leader and still go on building and subsidizing new fossil fuel infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These numbers arent anyones political opinions or political views, this is the current best-available science.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
So, we are now in a new year and we have entered a new decade and so far, during this decade, we have seen no sign whatsoever that real climate action is coming and that has to change, to the world leaders and those in power, I would like to say that you have not seen anything yet. You have not seen the last of us, we can assure you that. And that is the message that we will bring to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It has been a strange and busy year, but also a great one because I have found something I want to do with my life and what I am doing is having an impact.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I stand here striking from 8am until 3pm as usual ... then I'll go home, i won't have a birthday cake but we'll have a dinner.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
2019 is almost over. We must make sure that 2020 is the year of action, is the year when we bend the global emissions curve, we are going to put pressure on those in power, we are going to make sure that they will act and they will take responsibility.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I will be home for Christmas and then I will take a holiday break because you need to take rest, otherwise you cannot do this all the time.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We are getting bigger and bigger and our voices are being heard more and more, but of course that does not translate into political action.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Of course there is no victory, because the only thing we want to see is real action, so we have achieved a lot, but if you look at it from a certain point of view we have achieved nothing.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We don't want to continue. We would love some action from people in power, people are suffering and dying from the climate and ecological emergency today and we cannot wait any longer.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
So happy to say I'll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
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. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If you belong to that small group of people who feel threatened by us, then we have some very bad news for you, because this is only the beginning. Change is coming whether they like it or not.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Richer countries such as Canada and Sweden need to get down to zero emissions much faster so people in poorer countries can heighten their standard of living by building the infrastructure we have already built, we're not doing this because it's fun or because we have a special interest in the climate or because we want to become politicians when we grow up. We're doing this because our future is at stake.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
He is of course obviously not doing enough but... this is such a huge problem, my message to all the politicians is the same, to just listen to the science, act on the science.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I guess they must feel like their world view or their interests or whatever... is threatened by us. We've become too loud for people to handle so they try to silence us, we should also take that as a compliment.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing, we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don't want your hope. I want you to panic.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
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.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The fact that you are staring at a panel of young people testifying before you today pleading for a livable earth should not fill you with pride; it should fill you with shame.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
My message for him is just listen to the science, but he obviously doesn't do that. No one has been able to convince him of climate change, the urgency, why should I be able to do that? so I'm just going to focus on spreading awareness.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's insane that a 16-year-old had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to make a stand on the climate crisis. This of course is not something I want everyone to do.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Me speaking to the U.N. is not going to change the situation but if that can help to create awareness ... then I think that together we can try to ... make a change.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
By stopping flying you not only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I might feel a bit seasick and it's not going to be comfortable but that I can live with, if it's really hard then I just have to think it's only for two weeks then I can go back to as usual.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Me speaking to the U.N. is not going to change the situation but if that can help to create awareness...then I think that together we can try to...make a change.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If we are to stay below 1.5 degrees of temperature rise, then science says that Germany can probably not continue to burn coal. I mean, another 20 years, that is not my opinion or what I think, that's what science says.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I'm grateful to get the opportunity to get my message out to a broad new audience in a new way, i think it's great that The 1975 is so strongly engaged in the climate crisis. We quickly need to get people in all branches of society to get involved.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We have to acknowledge that the older generations have failed. All political movements in their present form have failed, but homo sapiens have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Some people have chosen not to come here today, some have chosen not to listen to us and that is fine, we are after all just children, you don't have to listen to us. But you do have to listen to the scientists, that is all we ask.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The tricky thing is that its on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. And there are no trains going there, and since I dont fly, because of the enormous climate impact of aviation, its going to be a challenge. I havent quite figured that out yet.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Thank you for standing up for the climate and speaking the truth. It means a lot, god bless you, continue to work, continue. Go along, go ahead.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
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