"This is all wrong" speech to the United Nations (Greta Thunberg) Sweden

'This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders At U.N. Climate Session September 23, 201911:24 AM ET BILL CHAPPELL UN HEADQUARTERS NEW YORK – CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT 2019 Greta Thunberg has a message for world leaders at the United Nations this week: "We'll be watching you." Speaking at the Climate Action Summit in New York, Thunberg added, "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school, on the other side of the ocean."

But instead, Thunberg, 16, is trying to convince politicians to take climate change seriously, and to do something to stop a global warming trend that will affect the world's children more than it affects anyone who's currently in power.

In an impassioned speech, Thunberg told those who hold office, "you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? 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."

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"How dare you?" she asked again, growing increasingly emotional as the audience cheered at the 2019 Climate Action Summit.

Citing more than 30 years' worth of scientific studies and warnings that greenhouse gases and other factors were establishing a dangerous new environmental trend, Thunberg criticized politicians for not developing solutions and strategies to confront that threat.

"We'll be watching you," Thunberg told world leaders Monday, speaking at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City.

Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images This teenager is on a fantasy power trip that will die back just like the Children’s Crusades of the Middle Ages.

Saint Joan of Arc and Saint Genevieve of Paris are much better examples of women singularly making important contributions to the world.

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Meanwhile on the streets of the United States other know-it-all youth rage on and their adult handlers laugh.

How much longer will rational citizens tolerate this insanity to deprive the world of fossil fuels and force the suffering and death of billions of people?

"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."

Thunberg then drilled into one aspect of a current international plan, which includes the goal of cutting current emissions levels in half over the next 10 years.

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But that plan, she said, only provides a 50% chance of keeping the warming trend below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you," Thunberg said, before listing the many assumptions that underlie the estimate and the challenges that could thwart success.

"They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist. So, a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences."

Thunberg's speech at a U.N. climate conference last December continues to draw viewers, captured by her direct tone and the clarity of her analysis of a complicated issue. For Monday's speech in New York, the Swedish activist shared the stage with U.N. Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, who praised the youth movement for raising awareness for climate action.

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In her remarks, Thunberg accused politicians of pretending that the world's dire climate problems can be solved with technical solutions and "business as usual."

To back up her point, she cited a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which concluded that for the world to preserve its best chance of meeting the 1.5-degree goal, countries had a "total carbon budget" of 420 gigatons of CO2 at the start of 2018 — meaning that together, countries shouldn't exceed that amount.

"Today, that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons," Thunberg said, adding that at current emission rates, the carbon budget laid out by the IPCC "will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years."

Thunberg added, "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."

To those wielding power, the activist said, "You are failing us, but 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," she added. "Right here, right now is where we draw the line."

Thunberg concluded her remarks by saying, "The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."

In a sign of her growing prominence, Thunberg's remarks at the climate summit immediately preceded speeches from leaders such as Pope Francis and New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern.

Much of the world’s environment and climate is healthy and beautiful. The rest can be improved with sound leadership and plentiful energy from fossil fuels, hydro-electric and nuclear power. Forcing the world to stop using fossil fuels will lead to the suffering and death of billions and return to the misery prior to use of fossil fuels. John Shanahan 4