“My name is Greta Thunberg, I am 16 years old, I come from Sweden, and I want you to panic. I want you to act as if the house was on fire.”

If leaders realized the gravity of the crisis, said Thunberg,
“you wouldn’t fly around the world in business class chatting about how the market will solve everything… You wouldn’t talk about buying and building your way out of a crisis that has been creating by buying and building things. You wouldn’t hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and environment. You wouldn’t be arguing about phasing out coal in 15 or 11 years…You wouldn’t be celebrating that one nation like Ireland may soon divest from fossil fuels. You wouldn’t celebrate that Norway has decided to stop drilling for oil at the scenic resort of Lofoten Islands but will continue top drill for oil everywhere else for decades.”

Greta Thunberg is the future. EU and all leaders of all countries, you must listen to youth, they are the future. And they don’t want the future to be a dystopia of a ravaged Earth with apocalyptic weather and coastal cities and island countries under water with unlivable temperature ranges. Forget dragging your fracking wells all over the land pushing for peak oil and natural gas. Plan intelligently now to harness natural solar, wind and water power for energy. Life depends on it.

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‘You Cannot Ignore Science’: In Emotional Plea, Greta Thunberg Begs EU to Take Urgent Climate Action

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/04/17/you-cannot-ignore-science-emotional-plea-greta-thunberg-begs-eu-take-urgent-climate