MENTAL health issues aside, woke Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg gave a climate speech to the UN assembly last month that re-energised the inmates. The rest of us writhed with embarrassment for her (and Sweden) then quickly tuned out.
For the majority who missed it, a sanitised transcript is below which includes only the passages where Thunberg stated “how dare you!”. Which is pretty much the whole speech. Sorry.PC
This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!...
For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. 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.
How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just 'business as usual' and some technical solutions? With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 years.
PICTURE: Greta Thunberg. (courtesy Reuters)
VIDEO: Greta Thunberg speech to UN 2019 (courtesy: Vice News)
This child has missed so much schooling her parents should be ashamed of them selves. If she was in Australia wouldn’t DOCS be getting involved.
I wonder how much this poor child is being manipulated by vested Green interests!
Very interesting story, Greta is an interesting one