You speak only for green economic growth because you are too afraid to be unpopular. You speak only to make progress with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, when the only sensible thing to do is to pull the emergency brakes.
It is Thursday 13. December, and Greta Thunberg speaks in front of the verdenstoppene at the Un climate summit in Katowice in Poland. She is angry at the politicians who talk in big words, but that is not doing enough to solve the climate crisis.
– You are not mature enough to tell the truth as it is. And with the burden send you on to us children, sounds from the scene where the tender girl standing in front of the audience.
– You say that you love their children above anything else, but still steals you the future their right in front of the eyes on them.
Klimastjerne
Thunberg has been klimaaktivistenes new superstar, after she earlier in the fall sitting outside the Swedish Parliament and had broken down from school for klimasaken.
the Strike received massive international attention , and sparked hundreds of similar skolestreiker all over the world. Since then she has been named one of the world’s most influential teenagers by Time Magazine.
When the Un climate summit was kicked off at the beginning of December, she was invited by the Un secretary-general António Guterres to keep a short åpningsappell, in addition to the speech she held Wednesday.
here, Too, used the opportunity to do shame on all who were present in the audience, as she spoke on behalf of the children:
APPEAL: Here is where Thunberg, an appeal in front of a group klimaaktivister during a protest against global warming in connection with the climate summit in Katowice. Photo: AP / NTB Scanpix Show more
– We have not come here to ask verdenslederne to care about our future. They have ignored us before, and they’re going to do it again. Since they behave like children, we must take that responsibility they should have taken long ago.
do not Believe in consensus
despite the commitment she has little faith that the politicians actually going to take her words into consideration, and come to a consensus on a concrete plan of action to reach the goals in Parisavtalen.
Even after Guterres’ tordentale which was held on the same day, where he called for political will that the countries in the world to agree on what rules apply during the Parisavtalen.
I wouldn’t want the grandkids of my or someone else should suffer the consequences of our mistakes. They are not going to forgive us if uncontrolled and race, climate change is our legacy to them, he said in front of the congregation.
Thunberg think it is unlikely that countries will arrive at a concrete action plan in the nearest future. She describes the situation as hopeless, but emphasizes the opposite Swedish harmless SVT that we are going to have to act, even when there is no hope.
– having no hope is no excuse not to do something. The hope comes the first when we shop.
– You don’t listen to us. You did never