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"For me, there is no way of distinguishing the two. We cannot have climate justice without social justice. … No matter the cause of the suffering—CO₂ or bombs or state repression—we have to stand up.”
“I was very clear in my testimony that we were kidnapped on international waters and brought against our own will into Israel,”
You can shove your climate crisis up your arse.
Response to COP26 (2021)
"Our governments and the international community are failing to uphold human dignity. They contribute to the impunity of those responsible for ecological and human genocide. That leaves us as the only adults in the room.”
The last 2 months the European Central Bank has injected 7,6 billion € into fossil fuels. Allow me to doubt the seriousness of the EUs' so called "green" recovery plan...
"We must always stand up and speak up against oppression, imperialism, war, all forms of discrimination and racism. To stand with Palestine is to be human. We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced,"
It shouldn’t be up to us children and teenagers to make people wake up around the world. The ones in charge should be ashamed... We need to care about each other more.
"We have the science on our side."
"If you care about a habitable planet you should also care about humans. … We can’t pretend to care about the environment while we ignore the suffering and oppression of people.”
Sweden in particular is very good at greenwashing and framing themselves as a climate leader, when we have very high emissions per capita … So we are not a climate leader at all.”
Greta Thunberg joins climate protest blocking Swedish parliament The guardian news (2024)
"If watching children being systematically starved, over two million people being systematically starved by Israel is not enough to motivate you to get out of the couch, then what is it going to take?
We are in a global emergency, which affects all of us. But everyone is not suffering its Consequences equally... Africa is being disproportionately hit by the climate crisis, despite contributing to it among the least.
We can’t give them any legitimacy in this situation, which is why we are standing here … saying no to greenwashing and no to the Azerbaijani regime.”
We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis... if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then... we should change the system itself.
absolutely nothing compared to what people are going through in Palestine and especially Gaza right now”
We say no more blah blah blah. No more exploitation of people and the nature and the planets … no more whatever the fuck they are doing inside there.
Response to COP26 (2021)
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every day. [...] There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground. So we can't save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change. And it has to start today.
Almost Everything is Black and White (2018)
“As the COP29 climate meeting is reaching its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. … The people in power are yet again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis.”
We are sick and tired of it and we are going to make the change whether they like it or not … We are not going to let them get away any more.
Response to COP26 (2021)
"2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. Climate disasters, wars, oppression, and inequalities further intensified – killing and displacing countless people."