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Greta Thunberg Speech:

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, addressed the U.N.'s Climate Action
Summit in New York City on Monday. Here's the full transcript of
Thunberg's speech, beginning with her response to a question about the
message she has for world leaders.
"My message is that we'll be watching you.
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on
the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people 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 fairy tales of eternal
economic growth. How dare you!

NATIONAL
'This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders At U.N. Climate
Session
"For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare
you continue to look away and come here saying that you're doing
enough, when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.
"You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency. But no matter
how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you
really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you
would be evil. And that I refuse to believe.
Sponsor Message
"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives
us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of
setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not
include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden
by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They
also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your
CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist.
"So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with
the consequences.
"To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature
rise – the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change] – the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan.
1st, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
"How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just 'business as
usual' and some technical solutions? With today's emissions levels, that
remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 years.
"There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these
figures here today, because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And
you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.
Sponsor Message
"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your
betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you
choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.
"We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we
draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether
you like it or not.
"Thank you."

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