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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 6 months ago
Environment
This is a good opportunity to put out information that we think people should have access to.
Found on Reuters 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
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 7 months ago
Environment
For over one-and-a-half years we have been sacrificing our education to protest against your inaction.
Found on Reuters 7 months ago
Environment
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 9 months ago
Environment
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 9 months ago
Environment
I'm not the kind of person who celebrates birthdays.
Found on Reuters 9 months ago
Environment
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 9 months ago
Environment
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 10 months ago
Environment
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 10 months ago
Environment
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 10 months ago
Environment
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 10 months ago
Environment
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 10 months ago
Environment
So happy to say I'll hopefully make it to COP25 in Madrid.
Found on Reuters 11 months ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Company News
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 1 year ago
Company News
We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable.
Found on Reuters 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Company News
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 1 year ago
Company News
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 1 year ago
Entertainment
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 1 year ago
Entertainment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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 1 year ago
Environment
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