Greta Thunburg Quotes

Greta Thunburg

Profession : Environmentalist

Birth : January 3, 2003

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

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We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

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I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn't do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

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I believe that one person can make a difference.

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I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.

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Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

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People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

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I thought I couldn't make a difference because I was too small.

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Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

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Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

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It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

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I don't care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don't have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

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The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

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I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

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You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

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Sometimes it's Tune-berg, sometimes Thunn-berg. I mean, I think it's funny that everyone pronounces it differently. So, that is just - I don't mind anyone pronouncing it wrong. There's no wrong way to pronounce it. Everyone pronounces it in their own way.

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We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

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My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes - it always does - so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

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For 25 years countless people have come to the U.N. climate conferences begging our world leaders to stop emissions and clearly that has not worked as emissions are continuing to rise. So I will not beg the world leaders to care for our future. I will instead let them know change is coming whether they like it or not.

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