Quotes

[to the U.N. Global Climate Action Summit, September 2019] You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words... People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of an endless economic growth. How dare you!

What's the point in educating ourselves and learning the facts when the people in power refuse to listen, to be educated and pay attention to the facts? Everywhere I've been the situation is more or less the same: the numbers of politicians and celebrities who want to take selfies are the same, and the lies are the same.

Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.

[Mocking world leaders in a speech at the Climate4Youth conference, dismissing promises on climate action made by Boris Johnson] Build back better; blah, blah, blah. Green economy; blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050; blah, blah, blah. Net zero; blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral, blah blah blah.

Until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus then we must forget about net zero or 'carbon neutrality'.

We should abandon the illusion that our politicians will come to the rescue of planet Earth, especially those who delight in calling themselves climate leaders. Time and again they have betrayed the faith that has been placed in them - using greenwashing and PR strategies disguised as politics.

China is still categorized as a developing nation by WTO, they manufacture a lot of our products and so on. But that's of course no excuse for ruining future and present living conditions. We can't solve the climate crisis unless China drastically changes course.

[2018] A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.

[on the use of panic and fear in her speeches] Let me just clear that those are metaphors in speeches. You often use metaphors. Of course, I don't mean literally that I want people to panic. So there was no scientific study that made me come to that conclusion.

If we can save the banks, then we can save the world.

I only speak when it is necessary.

You are never too small to make a difference.

Our House is on fire!

How dare you!