18 Quotes by Greta Thunberg

So 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.So everyone out there: it is now time for civil disobedience.It is time to rebel.

You need to listen to us, we who cannot vote.You need to vote for us, for your children and grandchildren.What we are doing now can soon no longer be undone.In this election, you vote for the future living conditions of humankind.

Adults keep saying: "We owe it to the young people to give them hope."But I don't want your hope.I don't want you to be hopeful.I want you to panic.I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.And then I want you to act.I want you to act as you would in a crisis.I want you to act as if our house is on fire.Because it is.

We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You’ve run out of excuses and we’re running out of time. We’ve come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not.

We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. We are about to sacrifice the biosphere so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before. If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival. Either we go on as a civilization or we don’t.

If the walls of our house truly came tumbling town, surely you would set your differences aside and start cooperating.Well, our house is falling apart. And we are rapidly running out of time. And yet basically nothing is happening.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

I don't want you to be hopeful, I want you to panic