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Whether or not you choose to rise to that challenge is up to you. Either way, history will judge you.

— Greta Thunberg An Open Letter to the Global Media by Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate (2021)

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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).

The Cops are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing.

"We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights."

"If we do not [phase out fossil fuels], it will be a death sentence for countless people.

"We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible."

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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