Greta har ret. Valget står mellem at bevare vort klima og den natur vi kender, eller fortsætte ad “vækstvejen” hvor alt ødelægges i jagten på hovedløs vækst.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, addressed the U.N.’s Climate Action Summit in New York City on Monday. Here’s the full transcript of Thunberg’s speech, beginning with her response to a question about the message she has for world leaders.
“My message is that we’ll be watching you.
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!”
Greata har, som drengen i eventyret, opdaget bedraget. KLodens elite flyver rundt og samles til møder på verdens dyreste hoteller. Der sker intet på disse møder – man trækker tiden ud og håber, at nye generationer opfinder ny teknik, som kan løse problemerne.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And 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 fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!“
Det ser sort ud. Det bliver varmere og varmere og vejret ændres og bliver stadig mere ekstremt. Australien brænder. Vi har udryddet 80% af insekterne i den vestlige verden, i bestæbelserne på at maximere udbyttet i landbruget. Greta har spottet eventyrene om evig økonomisk vækst og hermed gør hun os opmærksomme på, at vi lever i et stort Ponzi Scheme.
“For more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re 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.”
Videnskaben er krystalklar. Spørgsmålet er om verdens ledere er dumme eller onde. Dilemmaet er det frie valg mellem at beholde klimaet som vi kender det, eller om vi, af hensyn til aktionærerne, vil holde fast i den altødelæggende økonomiske vækst.
“The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
Risikoen for at der sker ændringer så voldsomme, at vi aldrig kan komme tilbage, er uhyggelige. Kan vi genetablere Nordpolen og Golfstrømmen?
“Fifty percent 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.
Vi fodres konstant med håb om, at der snart vil blive opfundet en teknologi, som kan suge CO2 ud af luften. Det kommer ikke til at ske, uanset hvor meget man fodre den falske videnskab med penge.
Vi snakker kemi på niveau med 9. klasse. Når kul afbrændes bruges ilt og man får energi plus CO2. Hvis man vil lave CO2 om til kul og ilt, så skal der bruges lige så meget energi, som man fik ved afbrændingen af kullet.
Det samme gør sig gældende med brinten i alle brændstoffer. Når brint afbrændes, bruger man ilt og får energi + vand. Hvis man vil lave ilt og brint ud af vand, så skal den samme mængde energi tilbageføres.
“So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences.
To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise – the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] – the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan. 1st, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
How dare you pretend that this can be solved with just ‘business as usual’ and some technical solutions? With today’s emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone within less than 8 1/2 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.
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.”