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For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything to fight the climate crisis, but we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. We are striking because we have done our homework and they have not.

— Greta Thunberg

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Unite behind the science, that is our demand. (Thunberg told a plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

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