my message is that we'll be watching you
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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 in my childhood
with your empty words 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
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for more than 30 years the science has
been crystal-clear how dare you continue
to look away and come here saying that
you are 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
ten years only gives us a 50% chance of
staying below 1.5 degrees and the risk
of setting of irreversible chain
reactions beyond human control 50% 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
percent chance of staying below a 1.5
degrees of global temperature rise the
best odds given by the IPCC 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 sold with just business as usual
and some technical solutions
with today's emissions levels that
remaining co2 budgets will be entirely
gone within less than eight and a half
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
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
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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
you
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