Environmental The 15-year-old Greta Thunberg received this week the word on the climate summit in the Polish Katowice. The Swedish teenager spared her criticism of the current policy and got the politicians filled room silently.
The truth comes out one hasn’t anything. That proves the 15-year-old Greta Thunberg again with her speech on the COP24 climate summit in Katowice, Poland. The Swedish girl was allowed there as a representative for klimaatorganisatie Climate Justice Now! the word for the representatives of the 196 participating countries.
“Many say that Sweden is only a small country and that no matter what we do. But I have learned that you are never too small to make a difference,” compares the determined teenager from the shore. With an accusatory undertone she says her biggest worry then on the table. “You speak only of ‘green economic growth’ because you are afraid otherwise unpopular. You speak only of progress with the same bad ideas of this mess they caused, even when the emergency brake pull is the only right solution is. You are not mature enough to tell the truth as it is. Even that last show you to us, children, about it.”
You say more of your children than of anyone, but still take you their future for their eyes.
Greta Thunberg
“But I lie not awake of popularity. I lie awake on the climate and our planet. Our world is sacrificed so that a small group of people a lot of money can earn. Our environment is sacrificed so that the wealthy in countries like mine, in luxury can life. The suffering of the masses, pay for the excesses of the few.”
“In the year 2078 I will make my 75th birthday celebration. If I do have children, they will that day, maybe with me to spend. Maybe they will take me to your questions. Maybe they will ask me why you won’t did when it was still not too late. You say more of your children than of anyone, but still take you their future before their eyes.”
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