Greta Thunburg Quotes

Greta Thunburg

Profession : Environmentalist

Birth : January 3, 2003

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

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I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

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Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

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At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn't think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn't be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn't understand how that added up.

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Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change.

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The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

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Giving up cannot be an option.

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I see the world in black and white, and I don't like compromising.

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We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

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We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

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Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

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I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

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People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases... but they don't know the actual consequence of that.

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To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

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Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

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It is our future on the line, and we must at least have a say in it.

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My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.

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Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

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I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

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