"You must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option."
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Birthday: 3 January 2003
"I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is."
"You must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option."
"Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago."
"We need to get angry and understand what is at stake. And then we need to transform that anger into action and to stand together united and just never give up."
"Many people say that Sweden is just a small country, and it doesn't matter what we do, but I have learned you are never too small to make a difference."
"It is still not too late to act. It will take a far-reaching vision, it will take courage, it will take fierce, fierce determination to act now, to lay the foundations where we may not know all the details about how to shape the ceiling. In other words, it will take cathedral thinking. I ask you to please wake up and make changes required possible.”
"We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself."
“We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change – and it has to start today.”
“The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.”
“You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.”
“For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis. But we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. We will never stop fighting, we will never stop fighting for this planet, for ourselves, our futures and for the future’s of our children and grandchildren.”
“I’m not that special. I can’t convince everyone. I’m just going to do what I want to do and what will have most impact.”
“There is hope – I’ve seen it – but it does not come from the governments or corporations, it comes from the people. The people who have been unaware are now starting to wake up, and once we become aware we change. We can change and people are ready for change.”
