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It referred to the remaining CO2-budget of humanity. How dare you!For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. Get 30% your subscription today. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. I shouldn't be up here. she said.Get breaking news alerts and special reports.

With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than eight and a half years.There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today, because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. People are suffering. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. Thunberg’s mother was an opera singer, and her father was an actor. It is characterized by abnormalities in social interactions (as in classic autism) but with normal intelligence and language development.



Entire ecosystems are collapsing. The movement begins / began in August 2018 when Swedish student Greta Thunberg stood outside Sweden's government always / every Friday. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 percent chance of staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.Fifty percent may be acceptable to you, but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice.They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.So a 50 percent risk is simply not acceptable to us, we who have to live with the consequences.How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just business as usual and some technical solutions?


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Virtually any topic for the virtual learner. Breaking News Emails. Watch Greta Thunberg's impassioned U.N. speech: 'Change is coming whether you like it or not' Sept. 23, 2019 03:47. Greta was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which is now considered an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Although alone for the first day of the strike, she was joined each subsequent day by more and more people, and her story garnered international attention. Greta Thunberg is known across the world for her powerful speeches Greta Thunberg might only be 16 years old, but she has become famous all over the world for campaigning against climate change.

She gave speeches at the In addition to her environmental work, Thunberg was credited with raising awareness about Photos of her went viral / virus on social media.

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Thunberg’s mother was an opera singer, and her father was an actor. The above text is written by Greta Thunberg. Her action inspired hundreds of thousands of students around the world to participate in their own Fridays for Future.

I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.We will not let you get away with this.

Greta Thunberg, 15 year-old, refusing school for the climate outside the Swedish parliament.



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Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The world is waking up and change is coming, whether you like it or not. She held a sign that read: "School strike for climate". I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.