My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from ...(1)....Sweden. I speak on behalf of Climate Justice Now.
Many people say that ...(1)....Sweden is just a small country and it doesn't
...(2)....matter what we do. But I've learned you are never too small to make a ...(3)....difference. And if a few children can get ...(4)....headlines all over the world just by not going to school, then imagine what we could all do together if we really wanted to.
But to do that, we have to speak clearly, no matter how ...(5)....uncomfortable that may be. You only speak of green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being ...(6)....unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this ...(7)....mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the ...(8)....emergency brake.
You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being ...(9)....popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.
Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money. Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that ...(10)....rich people in countries like mine can live in ...(11)....luxury. It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few.