"How dare you continue to look away, and come here saying that you're doing enough?"
Greta Thunberg's furious speech on behalf of the youth at the UN...
Greta Thunberg's furious speech on behalf of the youth at the UN...
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00:00My message is that we'll be watching you.
00:12This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here.
00:17I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.
00:22Yet you all come to us young people for hope.
00:26How dare you!
00:29You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
00:34And yet I'm one of the lucky ones.
00:38People are suffering. People are dying.
00:42Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
00:46We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.
00:49And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
00:56How dare you!
01:05For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear.
01:11How dare you continue to look away
01:15and come here saying that you're doing enough
01:18when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.
01:24You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency.
01:29But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that.
01:35Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act,
01:41then you would be evil and that I refuse to believe.
01:46The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years
01:56only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees
02:01and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
02:0650% may be acceptable to you,
02:12but those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops,
02:17additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice.
02:23They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air
02:32with technologies that barely exist.
02:35So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us,
02:40we who have to live with the consequences.
02:43To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees of global temperature rise,
02:51the best odds given by the IPCC, the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit
02:59back on January 1st, 2018.
03:02Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
03:08How dare you pretend that this can be sold with just business as usual and some technical solutions.
03:16With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8.5 years.
03:27There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures here today
03:36because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.
03:43You are failing us, but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal.
03:51The eyes of all future generations are upon you.
03:56And if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you.
04:06www.ipcc.org