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meisje Thunberg laat er geen twijfel over bestaan.

"This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me 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 fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"
- G. Thunberg, UN Climate Summit, NY, 23 Sep, 2019

momentje, mensen. deze gaat de boeken in. wat een speech.


deze ook...

Hello, I’m Severn Suzuki speaking for E.C.O. – The Environmental Children’s Organization.

We are a group of twelve and thirteen-year-olds from Canada trying to make a difference: Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and me. We raised all the money ourselves to come six thousand miles to tell you adults you must change your ways. Coming here today, I have no hidden agenda. I am fighting for my future.

Losing my future is not like losing an election or a few points on the stock market. I am here to speak for all generations to come.

I am here to speak on behalf of the starving children around the world whose cries go unheard.

I am here to speak for the countless animals dying across this planet because they have nowhere left to go. We cannot afford to be not heard.

I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it.

I used to go fishing in Vancouver with my dad, until just a few years ago, we found the fish full of cancers. And now we hear about animals and plants going extinct every day – vanishing forever.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rain forests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?

All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!

* You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.
* You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream.
* You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct.
* And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.

If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Here, you may be delegates of your governments, business people, organisers, reporters or politicians – but really you are mothers and fathers, brothers and sister, aunts and uncles – and all of you are somebody’s child.

I’m only a child yet I know we are all part of a family, five billion strong, in fact, 30 million species strong and we all share the same air, water and soil – borders and governments will never change that.

I’m only a child yet I know we are all in this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal.

In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel.

In my country, we make so much waste, we buy and throw away, buy and throw away, and yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.

In Canada, we live the privileged life, with plenty of food, water and shelter – we have watches, bicycles, computers and television sets.

Two days ago here in Brazil, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. And this is what one child told us: “I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection.”

If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?

I can’t stop thinking that these children are my age, that it makes a tremendous difference where you are born, that I could be one of those children living in the favellas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India.

I’m only a child yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this earth would be!

At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You teach us:

* not to fight with others,
* to work things out,
* to respect others,
* to clean up our mess,
* not to hurt other creatures
* to share – not be greedy.

Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

Do not forget why you’re attending these conferences, who you’re doing this for – we are your own children. You are deciding what kind of world we will grow up in. Parents should be able to comfort their children by saying “everything’s going to be alright” , “we’re doing the best we can” and “it’s not the end of the world”.

But I don’t think you can say that to us anymore. Are we even on your list of priorities? My father always says “You are what you do, not what you say.”

Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You grown ups say you love us. I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening.

alleen niemand leest ze :')



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Cullis-Suzuki

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Keihard gelachen om dat vrouwtje, wat een dramaqueen _O-
Zonder wrijving geen glans
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 07:26:02 #3
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Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
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Stond vanmorgen weer een heel (lang) artikel in de "krant" over dit gebeuren. "Dit is waarom Greta Thunberg zoveel haat oproept".

Hoe de mensen erover denken, en hoe ze erover zouden moeten denken. Indoctrinatie 101, voer voor psychologische oorlog onder het volk.

Zal wel weer storm lopen dit topicje vandaag.
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 07:37:02 #6
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 07:35 schreef TomStall het volgende:
Stond vanmorgen weer een heel (lang) artikel in de "krant" over dit gebeuren. "Dit is waarom Greta Thunberg zoveel haat oproept".

Hoe de mensen erover denken, en hoe ze erover zouden moeten denken. Indoctrinatie 101, voer voor psychologische oorlog onder het volk.

Zal wel weer storm lopen dit topicje vandaag.
Artikel ff doorsturen naar media@jensen.nl aub :)
Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
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Een stukje van Greta zelf als reactie op verschillende aantijgingen.

Recently I’ve seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very strange to people in general.
So let me make some things clear about my school strike.

In may 2018 I was one of the winners in a writing competition about the environment held by Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper. I got my article published and some people contacted me, among others was Bo Thorén from Fossil Free Dalsland. He had some kind of group with people, especially youth, who wanted to do something about the climate crisis.
I had a few phone meetings with other activists. The purpose was to come up with ideas of new projects that would bring attention to the climate crisis. Bo had a few ideas of things we could do. Everything from marches to a loose idea of some kind of a school strike (that school children would do something on the schoolyards or in the classrooms). That idea was inspired by the Parkland Students, who had refused to go to school after the school shootings.
I liked the idea of a school strike. So I developed that idea and tried to get the other young people to join me, but no one was really interested. They thought that a Swedish version of the Zero Hour march was going to have a bigger impact. So I went on planning the school strike all by myself and after that I didn’t participate in any more meetings.

When I told my parents about my plans they weren’t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them.
On the 20 of august I sat down outside the Swedish Parliament. I handed out fliers with a long list of facts about the climate crisis and explanations on why I was striking. The first thing I did was to post on Twitter and Instagram what I was doing and it soon went viral. Then journalists and newspapers started to come. A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive. He spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on Facebook. That was the first time I had ever met or spoken with him. I had not communicated or encountered with him ever before.

Many people love to spread rumors saying that I have people ”behind me” or that I’m being ”paid” or ”used” to do what I’m doing. But there is no one ”behind” me except for myself. My parents were as far from climate activists as possible before I made them aware of the situation.
I am not part of any organization. I sometimes support and cooperate with several NGOs that work with the climate and environment. But I am absolutely independent and I only represent myself. And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all. And nor has anyone linked to me or my family done so.
And of course it will stay this way. I have not met one single climate activist who is fighting for the climate for money. That idea is completely absurd.
Furthermore I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

My family has written a book together about our family and how me and my sister Beata have influenced my parents way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses.
That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in august instead.
Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book ”Scener ur hjärtat” will be going to 8 different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I don’t spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood.

Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it’s a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn’t possibly have put myself in this position. But that’s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ”normal” and social I would have organized myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things - like just sitting down outside the parliament - speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

Also there is one complaint that I ”sound and write like an adult”. And to that I can only say; don’t you think that a 16-year old can speak for herself? There’s also some people who say that I oversimplify things. For example when I say that "the climate crisis is a black and white issue”, ”we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases” and ”I want you to panic”. But that I only say because it’s true. Yes, the climate crisis is the most complex issue that we have ever faced and it’s going to take everything from our part to ”stop it”. But the solution is black and white; we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Because either we limit the warming to 1,5 degrees C over pre industrial levels, or we don’t. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we don’t. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you don’t sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire. If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic.

There is one other argument that I can’t do anything about. And that is the fact that I’m ”just a child and we shouldn’t be listening to children.” But that is easily fixed - just start to listen to the rock solid science instead. Because if everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to - then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.
I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, I’m too young to do this. We children shouldn’t have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.


And if you have any other concern or doubt about me, then you can listen to my TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks(...)w_on_climate/up-next ), in which I talk about how my interest for the climate and environment began.

And thank you everyone for you kind support! It brings me hope.
/Greta
Ps I was briefly a youth advisor for the board of the non profit foundation “We don’t have time”. It turns out they used my name as part of another branch of their organisation that is a start up business. They have admitted clearly that they did so without the knowledge of me or my family. I no longer have any connection to “We don’t have time”. Nor has anyone in my family. They have deeply apologised and I have accepted their apology.
And the young, they can lose hope cause they can't see beyond today,. ..
The wisdom that the old can't give away
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:05:20 #8
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Jensen is lekker bezig de Nederlandse Alex Jones te worden. Klassieke: Wanneer je inhoudelijk niet te melden hebt, kun je altijd harder gaan praten. _O-

De boodschap van Greta is in ieder geval steekhoudender, dan de aanvallen op de persoon en de vorm. :)
Fine, fuck you then!
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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6s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 07:37 schreef Nikonlover het volgende:

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Artikel ff doorsturen naar media@jensen.nl aub :)
Zodat die achterlijke Jensen weer een schreeuwfilmpje kan maken? Het is heel makkelijk om iemand die zijn of haar nek uitsteekt belachelijk te maken, maar het is tegelijkertijd ook een van de meest sneue en vooral onintelligente dingen die je kan doen.
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:08:10 #10
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:05 schreef ..-._---_-.- het volgende:

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Zodat die achterlijke Jensen weer een schreeuwfilmpje kan maken? Het is heel makkelijk om iemand die zijn of haar nek uitsteekt belachelijk te maken, maar het is tegelijkertijd ook een van de meest sneue en vooral onintelligente dingen die je kan doen.
Waarom zeg je zulke nare dingen over Jensen? ;(
Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
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6s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:08 schreef Nikonlover het volgende:

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Waarom zeg je zulke nare dingen over Jensen? ;(
Dat zal Jensen nooooooooit doen he :')
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:13:59 #12
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:11 schreef ..-._---_-.- het volgende:

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Dat zal Jensen nooooooooit doen he :')
Jensen blijft altijd netjes :)
Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
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De wereld heeft de afgelopen 30 a 40 jaar wanbeleid gevoerd, en nu moet alles ineens anders :').

De wereld is echt niet meer te redden, en gaat uiteindelijk ten onder. Dat maken wij echter niet meer mee.

Ik draag mijn steentje bij, door zo energiezuinig te leven, en verder kunnen ze de pot op met hun klimaatgeneuzel..
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:17:14 #14
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6s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:13 schreef Nikonlover het volgende:

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Jensen blijft altijd netjes :)
:') _O-

"Griezelige Greta."
"Een 16-jarige *zeikerig stemmetje* How dare you, How dare you ... God, dit wordt me een monster later hè..."

Super netjes! _O- O+
Fine, fuck you then!
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
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14s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:17 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:

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:') _O-

"Griezelige Greta."
"Een 16-jarige *zeikerig stemmetje* How dare you, How dare you ... God, dit wordt me een monster later hè..."

Super netjes! _O- O+
Haha, ik proestte mijn koffie bijna uit man, moest hardop lachen :D. En ja, het gaat zeker een monster worden, niet te zuinig :X
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6s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:13 schreef Nikonlover het volgende:

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Jensen blijft altijd netjes :)
Laat me niet lachen. Jensen is plat vermaak met veel lawaai, vaan ten koste van anderen. Je kan beter naar mensen als Thunberg luisteren dan naar Jensen. Thunberg lijkt beter te hebben nagedacht dan Jensen over wat ze wil zeggen. Misschien steek je er nog wat van op. Van luisteren naar Jensen zal je in ieder geval niks opsteken.
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:20:03 #17
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14s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:17 schreef SicSicSics het volgende:

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:') _O-

"Griezelige Greta."
"Een 16-jarige *zeikerig stemmetje* How dare you, How dare you ... God, dit wordt me een monster later hè..."

Super netjes! _O- O+
Maar dat is dan ook de waarheid. Dat de waarheid niet netjes is, tja, daar kan jensen ook niets aan doen.
Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:20:48 #18
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6s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:20 schreef Nikonlover het volgende:
Maar dat is dan ook de waarheid. Dat de waarheid niet netjes is, tja, daar kan jensen ook niets aan doen.
Rubbish. :*
Verder wat ..-._---_-.- zegt! ;)
Fine, fuck you then!
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
  woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:21:58 #19
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:19 schreef ..-._---_-.- het volgende:

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Laat me niet lachen. Jensen is plat vermaak met veel lawaai, vaan ten koste van anderen. Je kan beter naar mensen als Thunberg luisteren dan naar Jensen. Thunberg lijkt beter te hebben nagedacht dan Jensen over wat ze wil zeggen. Misschien steek je er nog wat van op. Van luisteren naar Jensen zal je in ieder geval niks opsteken.
Ik laat mij de les niet lezen door een 1 of ander 16-jarig meisje. Tis alleen maar onzinnig links geschreeuw.
Op maandag 9 oktober 2023 13:31 schreef Nova het volgende:[/b]
Oh schatje, wat lief van je om dat te zeggen! Jij bent echt een prins op het witte paard voor mij. Met jou voel ik me zo geliefd en speciaal. Laten we nog lang samen genieten van sprookjesachtige avonturen en elkaar verwennen met veel knuffels en kusjes. O+ naar jou, mijn lieve prins! :*
  † In Memoriam † woensdag 25 september 2019 @ 08:34:55 #20
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 05:48 schreef ootjekatootje het volgende:
Iemand enig idee hoeveel boeken Greta wereldwijd heeft verkocht? Het zal een flink bos geweest zijn, gezien haar bekendheid.

Daarnaast maakt zij indirect gebruik van alle schadelijke spullen. Die boot is ook fabriekswerk.

Daarom vind ik haar zo hypocriet.. ben wel benieuwd of iemand die verkoopcijfers kan vinden. Menig schrijver zal daar jaloers op zijn.
Het is een beetje 'ik ben beter dan de rest' gedrag, en dat terwijl we allemaal even schuldig zijn, daarom voel ik mij niet persoonlijk aangesproken door dat asperger kind, misschien dat ze ooit nog het licht zal zien en normaal gaat praten.
"Ik zal nooit bij een club gaan die mij als lid accepteert"
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Nee, klopt niet. De 99,9 % roept niet dat het crisis is en ook niet dat de wereld vergaat. Ze zeggen hooguit dat er een opwarming van de Aarde is en dat dat op de lange termijn wat nadelige gevolgen kan hebben.
nee dit klopt niet. je kan gewoon stellen dat het wel vast staat dat die opwarming door menselijke activiteit wordt veroorzaakt. en dat die desasteuze gevolgen gaat hebben.
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 06:19 schreef FANN het volgende:
meisje Thunberg laat er geen twijfel over bestaan.

"This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me 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 fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"
- G. Thunberg, UN Climate Summit, NY, 23 Sep, 2019

momentje, mensen. deze gaat de boeken in. wat een speech.

WOW jammer van de onderbrekingen
Ik heb Hem niet uit vrees voor de hel noch uit liefde voor het paradijs gediend, want dan zou ik als de slechte huurling zijn geweest; ik heb hem veeleer gediend in liefde tot Hem en in verlangen naar Hem.
-Rabia Al-Basri
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0s.gif Op woensdag 25 september 2019 08:00 schreef miss_sly het volgende:
Een stukje van Greta zelf als reactie op verschillende aantijgingen.

Recently I’ve seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very strange to people in general.
So let me make some things clear about my school strike.

In may 2018 I was one of the winners in a writing competition about the environment held by Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper. I got my article published and some people contacted me, among others was Bo Thorén from Fossil Free Dalsland. He had some kind of group with people, especially youth, who wanted to do something about the climate crisis.
I had a few phone meetings with other activists. The purpose was to come up with ideas of new projects that would bring attention to the climate crisis. Bo had a few ideas of things we could do. Everything from marches to a loose idea of some kind of a school strike (that school children would do something on the schoolyards or in the classrooms). That idea was inspired by the Parkland Students, who had refused to go to school after the school shootings.
I liked the idea of a school strike. So I developed that idea and tried to get the other young people to join me, but no one was really interested. They thought that a Swedish version of the Zero Hour march was going to have a bigger impact. So I went on planning the school strike all by myself and after that I didn’t participate in any more meetings.

When I told my parents about my plans they weren’t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them.
On the 20 of august I sat down outside the Swedish Parliament. I handed out fliers with a long list of facts about the climate crisis and explanations on why I was striking. The first thing I did was to post on Twitter and Instagram what I was doing and it soon went viral. Then journalists and newspapers started to come. A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive. He spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on Facebook. That was the first time I had ever met or spoken with him. I had not communicated or encountered with him ever before.

Many people love to spread rumors saying that I have people ”behind me” or that I’m being ”paid” or ”used” to do what I’m doing. But there is no one ”behind” me except for myself. My parents were as far from climate activists as possible before I made them aware of the situation.
I am not part of any organization. I sometimes support and cooperate with several NGOs that work with the climate and environment. But I am absolutely independent and I only represent myself. And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all. And nor has anyone linked to me or my family done so.
And of course it will stay this way. I have not met one single climate activist who is fighting for the climate for money. That idea is completely absurd.
Furthermore I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

My family has written a book together about our family and how me and my sister Beata have influenced my parents way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses.
That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in august instead.
Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book ”Scener ur hjärtat” will be going to 8 different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I don’t spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood.

Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it’s a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn’t possibly have put myself in this position. But that’s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ”normal” and social I would have organized myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things - like just sitting down outside the parliament - speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

Also there is one complaint that I ”sound and write like an adult”. And to that I can only say; don’t you think that a 16-year old can speak for herself? There’s also some people who say that I oversimplify things. For example when I say that "the climate crisis is a black and white issue”, ”we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases” and ”I want you to panic”. But that I only say because it’s true. Yes, the climate crisis is the most complex issue that we have ever faced and it’s going to take everything from our part to ”stop it”. But the solution is black and white; we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.
Because either we limit the warming to 1,5 degrees C over pre industrial levels, or we don’t. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we don’t. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you don’t sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire. If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic.

There is one other argument that I can’t do anything about. And that is the fact that I’m ”just a child and we shouldn’t be listening to children.” But that is easily fixed - just start to listen to the rock solid science instead. Because if everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to - then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.
I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, I’m too young to do this. We children shouldn’t have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.


And if you have any other concern or doubt about me, then you can listen to my TED talk ( https://www.ted.com/talks(...)w_on_climate/up-next ), in which I talk about how my interest for the climate and environment began.

And thank you everyone for you kind support! It brings me hope.
/Greta
Ps I was briefly a youth advisor for the board of the non profit foundation “We don’t have time”. It turns out they used my name as part of another branch of their organisation that is a start up business. They have admitted clearly that they did so without the knowledge of me or my family. I no longer have any connection to “We don’t have time”. Nor has anyone in my family. They have deeply apologised and I have accepted their apology.

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Haar ouders betalen de tickets? Vliegt ze weer?
Tickets kunnen ook treintickets zijn.
Maar dan nog, wat als ze soms wel vliegt, omdat het niet anders kan voor het doel wat ze voor ogen heeft? Wat is het toch dat het zo ontzettend hot maakt om iemand die zegt zich zorgen te maken over het klimaat/milieu te proberen te betrappen op iets dat nou net niet zo goed is voor datzelfde klimaat/milieu? Want uit het hele stuk haal je alleen het woord 'tickets'.
And the young, they can lose hope cause they can't see beyond today,. ..
The wisdom that the old can't give away
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