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Greta Thunberg Quotes

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“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, 'She seems very happy': Trump appears to mock Greta Thunberg's emotional speech
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Strike, Global Warming
“Just unite behind the science. 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.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, Scientists
“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, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Discredit, Mocking
“I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?”
— Greta Thunberg, The Guardian view on teenage activists: protesters not puppets | Editorial
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Crisis, Safe
“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, Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Existential Crisis, Crisis
“I was so sad because the world was so wrong, everything was so wrong, and then I thought there is no point in living…I became depressed, I stopped eating, and I stopped talking, and I stopped going to school.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Depression
“ I don’t fly for climate reasons so it’s not 100% yet, but we are figuring it out. It’s very hard, but I think it should be possible.”
— Greta Thunberg, When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez met Greta Thunberg: 'Hope is contagious'
Tagged: No Flights
“I tried to make the others in the group join me...but no one was really interested. So then I decided I was going to do it alone. And even if no one was joining me, I was going to do it.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, School Strike, Persistence
“Adults keep saying: ‘We owe it to the young people to give them hope.’ But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Hope, Panic
“Why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future?”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Future
“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, The Guardian view on teenage activists: protesters not puppets | Editorial
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Hopeful, Panic, Fear, Crisis, house on fire
“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, 'It's an existential crisis. Listen to scientists'
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Crisis, CO2 Emissions
“I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future.”
— Greta Thunberg, The Guardian view on teenage activists: protesters not puppets | Editorial
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Shitting, Future
“Many people say that we don’t have any solutions to the climate crisis. And they are right. Because how could we? How do you 'solve' the greatest crisis that humanity has ever faced? How do you 'solve' a war? How do you 'solve' going to the moon for the first time? How do you 'solve' inventing new inventions?”
— Greta Thunberg, 'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Europe, Crisis
“We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Save the World, playing by the rules
“During the last six months I have travelled around Europe for hundreds of hours in trains, electric cars and buses, repeating these life-changing words over and over again. But no one seems to be talking about it, and nothing has changed. In fact, the emissions are still rising.”
— Greta Thunberg, 'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Carbon Emissions, Europe
“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, Swedish teen leads Belgian students on 7th climate march
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Crisis
“If I would have been normal like everyone else, I could just continue like everyone else. And get stuck in the social game, and just continue like before. But since I was different, I see the world from a different perspective, I see things very black and white.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Perspective, black and white thinking
“At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilization, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg: ‘All my life I’ve been the invisible girl’
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Denial, Existential Crisis
“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.”
— Greta Thunberg, 'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, False Hope
“The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.”
— Greta Thunberg, 'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Europe, Crisis, Fossil Fuels
“I was fortunate to be born in a time and place where everyone told us to dream big; I could become whatever I wanted to. I could live wherever I wanted to. People like me had everything we needed and more. Things our grandparents could not even dream of. We had everything we could ever wish for and yet now we may have nothing.
Now we probably don’t even have a future any more.”
— Greta Thunberg, 'You did not act in time': Greta Thunberg's full speech to MPs
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Future, Dystopia
“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 the seemingly impossible possible. I think the least we can do to honor them is to stop destroying that same world that Charles, Léon and their friends and colleagues fought so hard to save for us.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger & More To Deliver Speeches On Climate | TIME
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Democracy, D-Day, Freedom
“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 better I feel, the happier I feel, because I feel like I’m doing something important, something meaningful.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, meaningful
“Around the year 2030, we will be in a position where we probably set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control, that will most likely lead to the end of our civilization as we know it. That is unless in that time, permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized society have taken place. Including a reduction of our CO2 emissions by at least 50%. And please note that these calculations are depending on inventions that have not yet been invented at scale. Furthermore these scientific calculations do not include most unforeseen tipping points and feed back loops. Nor do these calculations include already locked in warming hidden by toxic air pollution. Nor the aspect of equity, which is absolutely necessary to make the Paris Agreement work on a global scale. And these calculations are not opinions or wild guesses.


These projections are backed up by scientific facts, concluded by all nations through the IPCC. So if we are to stay below the 1,5 degrees of warming limit, which is still possible within the laws of physics, we need to change almost everything. We need to start living within the planetary boundaries. This will be a drastic change for many, but not for most.”
— Greta Thunberg, Greta Thunberg's Facebook Page
Tagged: Climate Change, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, End of Civilization
“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. 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!”
— Greta Thunberg, Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Existential Crisis, Crisis, Ocean, Mass Extinction
“Tens of thousands of children or schools are striking for the climate on the streets of Brussels. Hundreds of thousands are doing the same all over the world. We are school striking because we have done our homework. And some of us are here today. People always tell us that they are so hopeful. They are hopeful that the young people are going to save the world, but we are not. There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge. Because by the year 2020 we need to have bended the emissions curve steep downward.”
— Greta Thunberg, Speech by Greta Thunberg, climate activist
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, School Strike, Brussels
“Many people are trying to make the school strikes a question of whether we are promoting truancy or whether we should go back to school or not. They make up all sorts of conspiracies and call us puppets who cannot think for ourselves. They are desperately trying to remove the focus from the climate crisis and change the subject. They don't want to talk about it because they know they cannot win this fight. Because they know they haven't done their homework, but we have. Once you have done your homework you realize that we need new politics, we need new economics where everything is based on a rapidly declining and extremely limited remaining carbon budget.”
— Greta Thunberg, Speech by Greta Thunberg, climate activist
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, truancy, Conspiracies
“I think when I—I think I was maybe 7, 8, 9 years old when I first heard about the problem. And then, of course, by time, I read about it more and more and sort of understood how important it was and how severe this crisis was. And so, it was around that age and maybe 10, 11, 12. I think I became really into the climate movement when I was 12, 13. And that’s when I became like a climate activist. I went to demonstrations in my spare time, and I tried to join organizations and movements and so on. But then I just thought that everything was still happening too slow and that it wasn’t going fast enough. So then I just decided that I’m going to do something on my own, and that might not work, but there’s a chance it will—it can have an impact. And I thought, 'Why not try?' So then I started school-striking for the climate.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, School Strikes
“When I’m really interested in something, I get super-focused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it. And that is very common for people on the autism spectrum. And yeah, and it just—I think that was one of the reasons why, why I was one of the few who really reacted to the climate crisis, because I couldn’t connect the dots why people were just going on like before and still saying, 'Yes, climate change is very important.' I don’t get that double moral, in a way, the difference from between what—between what you know and what you say and what you do, how you act. And for me, it’s called cognitive dissonance. And I don’t really—I, in a way, I walk the walk. If I decide to do something, then I do it.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Focus, Concentration, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome
“My message to the young people of the world is that right now we are facing an existential crisis, I mean, the climate and ecological crisis, and 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. We need to hold the people in power accountable for what they have been doing to us and future generations and other living species on Earth. And we need to get angry and understand what is at stake. And then we need to transform that anger into action and to stand together united and just never give up.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Existential Crisis, Anger, Action
“You can't just sit around waiting for hope to come, you're acting like spoiled irresponsible children. You don't seem to understand that hope is something you have to earn. And if you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time then let me remind you that our political leaders have wasted decades through denial and inaction. And since our time is running out we have decided to take action. We have started to clean up your mess and we will not stop until we are done.”
— Greta Thunberg, Speech by Greta Thunberg, climate activist
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Childish, Denial, inaction
“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 care for our future. They have ignored us in the past, and they will ignore us again. We have come here to let them know that change is coming, whether they like it or not. The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, oil, Fossil Fuels, world leaders
“The political system that you have created is all about competition. You cheat when you can, because all that matters is to win, to get power. That must come to an end, we must stop competing with each other, we need to cooperate and work together and to share the resources of the planet in a fair way. We need to start living within the planetary boundaries, focus on equity and take a few steps back for the sake of all living species. We need to protect the biosphere, the air, the oceans, the soil, the forests.”
— Greta Thunberg, Speech by Greta Thunberg, climate activist
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change, Air, Ocean, Soil, Forests
“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 functioning climate—and it’s just unbelievable to see what some people have to go through.”
— Greta Thunberg, “We Are Striking to Disrupt the System”: An Hour with 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg
Tagged: Global Warming, Climate Change
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