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Greta Thunberg

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“I am pleased to announce that I've decided to go net-zero on swear words and bad language. In the event that I should say something inappropriate I pledge to compensate that by saying something nice. #COP26,”
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Recorded in: Greta Thunberg says she's going 'net-zero' on cussing after COP26 sing-along, Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, (03 November 2021)
“They invite cherry-picked young people to meetings like this to pretend that they listen to us. But they clearly don’t listen to us. Our emissions are still rising. The science doesn’t lie. We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.”
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Recorded in: 'Blah, blah, blah’: Greta Thunberg lambasts leaders over climate crisis, by Damian Carrington, The Guardian, (28 September 2021)
“May 2021 be the year of awakening and real bold change. And let's all continue the never-ending fight for the living planet.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Greta Thunberg sends New Year greetings to fans with powerful message, India Today, (1 January 2021)
“You can shove your up your arse.”
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“Inside COP they are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously, pretending to take the present seriously of the people who are being affected already today by the climate crisis. Change is not going to come from the inside; that is not leadership. This is leadership.”
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“We say no more blah blah blah. No more exploitation of people and the nature and the planets … no more whatever the fuck they are doing inside there.”
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“We are sick and tired of it and we are going to make the change whether they like it or not … We are not going to let them get away any more.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in “‘You can shove your climate crisis up your arse’: Greta Thunberg sings at Cop26 – video”, (2 November 2021)
“If you want to truly cover the climate crisis, you must also report on the fundamental issues of time, holistic thinking and justice.”
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“First, the notion of time. If your stories do not include the notion of a ticking clock, then the climate crisis is just a political topic among other topics, something we can just buy, build or invest our way out of. Leave out the aspect of time and we can continue pretty much like today and ”solve the problems” later on. 2030, 2050 or 2060.”
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“Second, holistic thinking. When considering our remaining carbon budget we need to count all the numbers and include all of our emissions. Currently, you are letting high income nations and big polluters off the hook, allowing them to hide behind the incomplete statistics, loopholes and rhetoric they have fought so hard to create during the last 30 years.”
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“Third, and most important of all, justice. The climate crisis isn’t just about extreme weather. It’s about people. Real people. And the very people who have done the least to create the climate crisis are suffering the most. And while the Global South is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, it’s almost never on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.”
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“To … minimize the risks of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control, we need immediate, drastic, annual emission reductions unlike anything the world has ever seen. And as we don’t have the technological solutions that alone will do anything close to that in the foreseeable future, it means we have to make fundamental changes in our society. This is the uncomfortable result of our leaders’ failure to address this crisis.”
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“The media must hold the people in power accountable for their actions, or inactions.”
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“We can still avoid the worst consequences, we can still turn this around. But not if we continue like today. You have the resources and possibilities to change the story overnight.”
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“Whether or not you choose to rise to that challenge is up to you. Either way, history will judge you.”
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Recorded in: An Open Letter to the Global Media by Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate", (29 October 2021)
“We are in a global emergency, which affects all of us. But everyone is not suffering its Consequences equally... Africa is being disproportionately hit by the climate crisis, despite contributing to it among the least.”
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Recorded in: Greta Thunberg Foundation donates to Africa climate projects, AFP, Yahoo News (23 September 2020)
“Still waiting for the EU and individual democratic nations to officially condemn the police brutality and attacks on the free press escalating the USA. For how long are we going to stand by, watch and say nothing?”
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Recorded in: Twitter (5 June 2020)
“The last 2 months the European Central Bank has injected 7,6 billion € into fossil fuels. Allow me to doubt the seriousness of the EUs' so called "green" recovery plan...”
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Recorded in: Twitter (3 Jun 2020)
“Devastating to see the development taking place in the USA. Centuries of structural and systematic racism and social injustice won’t go away by itself. We need a global structural change. The injustices must come to an end. #BlackLivesMatter”
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Recorded in: Twitter (30 May 2020)
“Today is a shameful day for Europe, as we open up a brand new coal power plant. We have signed up to lead the way to avoid a climate disaster - and yet this the signal we send to the rest of the world? How dare you indeed”
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Recorded in: Twitter (30 May 2020)
“On Saturday @uniper_energy and Finnish state owned @Fortum will open a brand new coal power plant #Datteln4 in Germany. Those in power clearly lied when they said they cared about their children’s future. If you needed proof that their words and promises were empty, this is it.”
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Recorded in: Twitter (27 May 2020)
“In Sweden @FortumSverige is running a huge “green” campaign saying that “The future is already here”, and that they ”have decided to take care of the future”. This takes #greenwashing to a whole new dimension.”
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Recorded in: Twitter (27 May 2020)
“I’m asking everyone to step up and join me in support of UNICEF’s vital work to save children’s lives, to protect health and continue education... Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child-rights crisis... It will affect all children, now and in the long-term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg teams up with UNICEF to help kids affected by coronavirus, David Mathews, New York Daily News, (11 May 2020)
“It seems like the people in power have given up...They say it’s too hard — it’s too much of a challenge. But that’s what we are doing here. We have not given up because this is a matter of life and death for countless people.... Either we choose to go on as a civilization or we don’t... That is as black or white as it gets. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.”
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Recorded in: Greta Thunberg and children's group hit back at attempt to throw out climate case, Fiona Harvey, The Guardian (5 May 2020)
“Very honoured to receive Human Act Award. The prize money - USD $100’000 - will be donated to @unicef . Human Act will match this donation with an additional USD 100,000. Today we’re launching a funding campaign to support UNICEF in the corona crisis.”
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Recorded in: Twitter (30 April 2020)
“I felt very alone that I was the only one who seemed to be worried about this... I was the only one left in this sort of bubble. Everyone else could just continue with their lives as usual, and I couldn’t do that... I thought what the Parkland students did was so brave... Of course, it was not the only thing that got me out of that feeling. I did it because I was tired of sitting and waiting. I tried to get others to join me, but no one was interested and no one wanted to do that. So I said, ‘I’m going to do this alone if no one else wants to do it.’”
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“Because you grown-ups don’t give a damn about my future, neither do I. My name is Greta, I am in ninth grade, and I am going on strike from school for the climate. (Her twitter bio)”
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“I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe... I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear. We don’t want to hear one more politician say that this is important but afterward do nothing to change it. We don’t want more empty words from people pretending to take our future seriously... It shouldn’t be up to us children and teenagers to make people wake up around the world. The ones in charge should be ashamed.”
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“[In response to Time editor Edward Felsenthal question about how she dealt with all the haters] I would like to say something that I think people need to know more than how I deal with haters.”
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“A teenager working on her anger management problem (her Twitter profile after Trump told her to chill out)”
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“I’m very weak in a sense... I’m very tiny and I am very emotional, and that is not something people usually associate with strength. I think weakness, in a way, can be also needed because we don’t have to be the loudest, we don’t have to take up the most amount of space, and we don’t have to earn the most money...We don’t need to have the biggest car, and we don’t need to get the most attention... We need to care about each other more.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in How one Swedish teenager armed with a homemade sign ignited a crusade and became the leader of a movement, Jack Davison, Rolling Stone, (26 March 2020)
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow. That is all we are saying.”
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“I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. (to the annual convention of CEOs and world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January)”
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Recorded in: Quoted in 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg, by Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland, Time (December 2019)
“I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising... If I were like everyone else, I would have continued on and not seen this crisis. (if her brain worked differently, she explained) I wouldn’t be able to sit for hours and read things I’m interested in.”
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“One person stops flying doesn’t make much difference. The thing we should look at is the emissions curve—it’s still rising. Of course something is happening, but basically nothing is happening. The change is going to come from the people demanding action, and that is us.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in 2019 Person of the Year Greta Thunberg, by Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland, Time (December 2019)
“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 fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
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Recorded in: If world leaders choose to fail us, my generation will never forgive them from speech delivered at the UN Climate Action Summit, Guardian (23 September 2019)
“I want people to unite behind the science... And that is what we have to realize, that that is what we have to do right now.. 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.”
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Recorded in: We Are Striking to Disrupt the System: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg, DemocracyNow (11 September 2019)
“We have lots of unions who are planning to strike, so, I mean, adults striking from their work. And that is so incredibly important to show that this is such an — this is not just for children or teenagers. This is for everyone. And what we are doing, we are not, of course — I mean, we are striking to disrupt the system...”
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Recorded in: After being asked about 900 Amazon workers based in Seattle who will strike on September 20th in solidarity with a global strike: We Are Striking to Disrupt the System..., DemocracyNow (11 September 2019)
“We are facing an existential crisis... 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 should also try to wake the adults up, because they are the ones who — their generation is the ones who are mostly responsible for this crisis, and we need to hold them accountable.”
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Recorded in: We Are Striking to Disrupt the System..., DemocracyNow (11 September 2019)
“I have Asperger's syndrome and that means I'm sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances - being different is a superpower. It makes you think differently. And especially in such a big crisis like this one we need to think outside the box. We need to think outside our current system, that we need people that think outside the box and who aren't like everyone else.”
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Recorded in: Greta Thunberg Explains Why Her Asperger's Is A 'Superpower' That Helps Her Activism, (10 September 2019)
“It’s insane that a 16-year-old has to cross the Atlantic in order to take a stand, but that’s how it is. It feels like we are at a breaking point. Leaders know that more eyes on them, much more pressure is on them, that they have to do something, they have to come up with some sort of solution. I want a concrete plan, not just nice words.”
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Recorded in: Greta Thunberg 'wants a concrete plan, not just nice words' to fight climate crisis, The Guardian (29 Aug 2019)
“That happens all the time. That’s basically all I hear. The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?But I’m sure you hear that a lot, too; that you’re too young and too inexperienced. When I see all the hate you receive for that, I honestly can’t believe how you manage to stay so strong.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Emma Brockes "When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'", The Guardian (29 June 2019).
“Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”
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Recorded in: The Eloquence of Greta Thunberg”, Thomas Gaulkin, (25 April 2019)
“You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. We will not understand it until it’s too late. And yet we are the lucky ones. Those who will be affected the hardest are already suffering the consequences. But their voices are not heard.”
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“You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time.”
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Recorded in: You did not act in time": Greta Thunberg's full speech to UK MPs (23 April 2019)
“For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything to fight the climate crisis, but we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. We are striking because we have done our homework and they have not.”
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Recorded in: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at four school strikes in a week, video 1:57, Source: Reuters, (1 Mar 2019)
“I often talk to people who say, ‘No, we have to be hopeful and to inspire each other, and we can’t tell [people] too many negative things’ . . . But, no — we have to tell it like it is. Because if there are no positive things to tell, then what should we do, should we spread false hope? We can’t do that, we have to tell the truth.”
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Recorded in: Quoted in Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl,' Leslie Hook (22 February 2019)
“This target is not sufficient to protect the future for children growing up today. If the EU is to make its fair contribution to stay within the carbon budget for the 2C limit then it needs a minimum of 80 percent reduction by 2030, and that includes aviation and shipping... There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.”
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“Unite behind the science, that is our demand. (Thunberg told a plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).”
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Recorded in: Kicking Ass for Her Generation': Applause for 16-Year-Old Greta Thunberg as EU Chief Pledges $1 Trillion to Curb Climate Threat, Julia Conley, (21 February 2019)
“We need to focus every inch of our being on climate change, because if we fail to do so than all our achievements and progress have been for nothing and all that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure of human history. And they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time, because they have chosen not to listen and not to act.”
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