In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention. "The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. "All we have to do is to wake up and change."
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“When all the trees are cut down and all the resources used you will realize you can’t eat money.”
Chong Soon Jie — You should learn more about solar panels, they are not simply silicon. Also, the Silica used to make solar panels is not ‘just sand’, and is highly toxic.
The estimate for fossil fuels is quasi-science. Many popular opinions on it are wrong. In example, that figure is made assuming there will be no advancements in mining ability, and based on false information on the natural production of oil.
A multitude of things are done to curb damage from fossil fuels. Filters on power plants, regulations on mpg, carbon soaks, grants for study, funding of green power, the list goes on and on.
I know, I do science. You suffer from dunning kruger. Study more.
Swae Ocean thanks for the info. We shall we see what’s down the road. Keep doing science. (I study physics, which sadly and ironically enough makes me a bit lazy to research everything)
Footnote: people don’t say conclude that others suffering from dunning kruger if they are being humble, meaning keeping in mind that they may suffer from the same thing without knowing it)
Chong Soon Jie Its the internet, I would be betraying my roots and the glory of this ether if I was polite.
How pathetic.
+Swae Ocean you weren’t listening she said that solar and wind wasn’t working not solution listen before speak , listen to hear not to reply.
While most of the kids are busy fangirling Popstars or playing video games, it’s ridiculous, & quite inspiring to see this little girl talking about our existential crisis.
+Neightrix Prime Oh – so you are One-Pager Kind of Guy?
Judging by the negative remarks posted here by the pro-fossil-fuel/anti-science trolls, she’s obviously hit a nerve. Keep up the good work Greta.
Lol worry about yourself.
Says the user called “dankest-TV”
Kids in Belgium are skipping school every thursday for the climate (we do all the other stuff the other days of the week lol)
Its messed up that nations and international organizations failed so badly in tackling the issue of climate change, that it took teenagers to bring this major issue to the public consciousness.
It is messed up that people like you can be so misinformed, ignorant, and dunningkruger
really? Seems like more of a stunt to trivialize the discussion to me. This hardly elevates the discussion,
Greed is the ennemy….
I love it when 16 years old slaps adults in the face with simple facts and logic…
AWARHERO a young Ben Shapiro
+Skyler S A better solution would be to invest heavily in renewable energy resources, which would ultimately pay for themselves, then power planes, buses, etc using this clean energy, rather than getting rid of those things completely.
+Skyler S Get rid of, get rid of get rid of.. You sound like you want to be a caveman once again. I’d love to see you get rid of all these “Global Warming” devices and live your life.. You can’t. You’re stuck in this world as we know it.. If we stopped everything you ask tomorrow the world as we know it would end. The fact is that the Earth controls the temperature.. Nothing we do as Chimps changes anything. The governments will tells you this. Buts its all Propaganda. A Volcano eruption null and voids all our efforts in one foul swoop.
+Mandrake first of all you make it seem like all the scientists in the world got together and decided not to do research into renewable energy, finding new technology to power a whole civilisation isn’t easy. Sure with more money it might be easier to do research, but it doesn’t mean it’ll make it go faster. The amount of money we pour in education increases every year yet grade averages don’t go up, throwing money at a problem doesn’t always solve it. Then to implement the new found technology we hold have to overhaul every car and bus and plane, is the government going to implement that through force? Make everyone and every business turn in their car and make them buy a new one? What if they don’t want to, what if they can’t afford it, does the government pay for everything? Keep in mind that the government doesn’t create money, they either take out a load that they will never pay off, or take more money from the citizens.
Imagine climate change is a scam told by the chinese! Than we would build a better world for nothing. Than we would be independent from oil imports, people wouldn’t have to move their homes because of coal and all that because we believed a lie.The oceans would be cleaner, we would have a fresher air and a better, healtier life. Our cause would be lost because it is build on a lie.
Climate change is NOT a lie. And it affects us all!
+Fanghorn Bilers yes carbon dioxide is vital for plants bu there is a maximum to that. For a fact plants will reduce there growth at a certain point of the CO2 level is too high. There is something called ‘competetiv inhibition’ which means more CO2 won’t lead to more growth of plants.
+Skyler S I think US has a crush on China. China has a wall, ok we will build a wall. China emits more CO2, we will too. Why don’t you do the right thing? Aren’t you supposed to be the north star of global economy & policies?
BS.
+Fanghorn Bilers Good that carbon dioxide is good for plants, that’s why we keep cutting trees and shirking green areas all over the world! And Solar Maximum or Minimum comes at a 11 year cycle and even if the cycle could influence climate temperature, which I think It doesn’t, the temperature would fluctuate at this cycles, but right now we have extreme heats and colds and this extremes are increasing every year. And btw, we are at a solar minimum right now…
+Chiranjeeb Jena first of all, the wall thing is funny. Second of all if we followed china we would be putting Muslim people in “reeducation camps” so their compatible with our society, third if we followed china we would still be in the climate Accord put increasing our emissions, not dropping out of the Accord and decreasing our emissions. Lastly if the world decides to elect us to that position, might as well try.
“Instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then and only then hope will come.” ❤ Brilliant talk.
It is black and white.
The thing people don’t see is that there are two different groups of humans.
The humans that will be killed off by climate change and those who won’t.
Those who won’t include the wealthiest among us. They will always have what ever land, shelter and food there is. The left overs will go to the remaining population that will, by that time, be completely dependent on the upper class for everything they need to survive. So the wealthy will still have their working class, but the working class will be unable to protect themselves from anything the wealthy choose to do.
The wealthy we have today are the ancestors of that future upper class.
The wealthy today are the ones who got wealthy off fossil fuels and also have no interest in saving most of humanity when keeping the status quo will result in their descendants being in total control of the remaining human population in a few more generations.
However bad the Earth gets due to global warming, the wealthy will have the means to endure it in luxury.
It’s the rest of us that have to realize the real problem. The same problem our forefather’s realized. A wealthy ruling class is always a very bad idea.
Essero Eson The rich may survive.. but survive for what? They will have to leave the planet. It will take centuries for things to return to livable. Nobody wins
Well, just be comforted by the knowledge that the surviving rich people might have to pay a million dollat a day for employing a servant…
She is an absolute legend already!
Since we humans are able to see the web of life, we think we stand above it.
I asked everybody to watch this vid as my birthday present. I hope we soon realize how our daily actions can trace our final destiny. Love to everyone!
This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen.
This girl is amazing!
“It’s just frustrating as if you live in a world full of starving People
where occasionally you could point out food that no one else seemed to notice, for a Living,
where you go on stage And you’d go,
“did you ever Notice there’s a plate of Nachos right over there?” And people would go,
“oh, he’s So right, there IS a plate of Nachos. I never noticed that.
” But instead of eating them, They shove them up their noses And assholes for entertainment Value and get no nutrition out of it even though they’re fucking starving to death.” -Doug Stanhope
it might be wise to just stop talking about this issue in terms of climate so we don’t have to read those asinine “the climate changed in the past, too!” comments all the time.
let’s instead focus on the fact that 200 species are going extinct everyday and bio diversity is dwindling at a rapid rate.
that ought to make the issue much more tangible.
Even if you poured as much money as possible into global warming there would only be a difference of 1% in a 100 years; not much incentive is it.
It appears you can put a price on global warming; in several surveys done across countries people were only willing to pay 100-200 dollars a year towards it and not only that for every dollar spent on global warming is only worth 75 cents. Then you have the problem of each nation having different priorities so the approach would have to be different for each country. This is a poor solution because although people tend to have good intentions you’ll find that barely anyone is willing to give up the luxurious life their living for something they’ll never see.
You don’t solve a problem by conceptualising it stupidly; instead of regression surely progression must be the way forward; help raising families out of poverty so we have more intelligent people to come up with a smarter solution may be a start.
“Once we start to act, hope is everywhere” 10:20
We are gasoline junkies. What happens to a junkie when he doesn’t want to quite his habit ?
I get all of my serious information from children.
Her parents are guilty of child abuse. Telling an ignorant little girl that her world is coming to an end. Literally. Progressives, sheesh.
It’s true. I’ve been working with children for over 8 years and some of the greatest lessons I’ve learned has been from them. They aren’t as conditioned and hardened as us.
Smart girl. It’s true, people just don’t care. Drive less, walk more. Eat more vegtables compared to meat. Reduce plastic use.
There are no policies to use less oil? Maybe this is true in Sweden.