Name: 2019年9月23日，Greta Thunberg的演講。 (Greta Thunberg s speech, Sep 23, 2019)
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Greta, your first climate strike was a lonely event a little over a year ago.

And in the intervening time you have sparked the interest of millions

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What's your message to world leaders today?

My message is that we'll be watching you.

I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,

yet, you all come to us young people for hope.

You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction,

and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.

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.

The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years

only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5°C,

and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.

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°C global temperature rise

– the best odds given by the IPCC* – *[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]

the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on January 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.

But 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.

Right here, right now is where we draw the line.

And change is coming, whether you like it or not.

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2019年9月23日，Greta Thunberg的演講。 (Greta Thunberg s speech, Sep 23, 2019)

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