I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the global neglect of the climate crisis by leaders despite clear scientific evidence.
Greta Thunberg highlights her experiences traveling the world, observing that regardless of location, the climate crisis remains largely unaddressed by those in power. This statement reflects frustration over the ineffectiveness of leadership in tackling urgent environmental issues, despite widespread scientific consensus on the need for immediate action.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about environmental advocacy.
We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying 'we support you' and then walking away. We won't be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That's why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn't enough. That's why we have to keep striking.
When I was maybe eight or nine years old, I first learned about the climate crisis in school. My teachers taught me about it and we saw films and pictures of plastic in the ocean and extreme weather events. Those pictures were just stuck in my head; I thought, there is no point in anything.
I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.
We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
It felt like I was the only one who cared about the climate and the ecological crisis. My parents didn't care about it, my classmates didn't care about it, my relatives didn't care about this. I mean nobody I knew cared about this and I felt like I was the only one.
The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.
The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
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