It's insane that a 16-year-old had to cross the Atlantic Ocean to make a stand on the climate crisis. This of course is not something I want everyone to do.

Greta Thunberg

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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.

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.

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.

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.

The tricky thing is that its on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. And there are no trains going there, and since I dont fly, because of the enormous climate impact of aviation, its going to be a challenge. I havent quite figured that out yet.

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.

I don't want Rachel Kyte to be hopeful, I want Rachel Kyte to panic, I want Rachel Kyte to feel the fear I feel every day.

15 year old climate activist with Asperger's. by Greta Thunberg

15 year old climate activist with Asperger's.

You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.