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NO ONE IS TOO SMALL TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
GRETA THUNBERG was born in 2003. In August 2018, she decided not to go to school one day, starting a strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to go on strike for our planet, and earning her the prestigious Prix Libert, as well as a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. Greta has Aspergers, and considers it a gift which has enabled her to see the climate crisis in black and white.
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is Gretas first book in English, collecting her speeches from climate rallies across the globe to audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum, the British Parliament, and US Congress. Her next book, Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, is a memoir, jointly written with her mother, the opera singer Malena Ernman, her sister, Beata Ernman, and her father, Svante Thunberg.
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First published, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, 2019
This edition published in Penguin Books 2019
Copyright 2018, 2019 by Greta Thunberg
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The speeches in this work were originally given in 2018 and 2019.
ISBN 9780143133568 (paperback)
ISBN 9780525505372 (ebook)
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Stockholm, September 8, 2018
Last summer, a number of leading climate scientists wrote that we have at most three years to reverse growth in greenhouse-gas emissions if were going to reach the goals set in the Paris Agreement.
Over a year and two months have now passed, and in that time many other scientists have said the same thing and a lot of things have got worse and greenhouse-gas emissions continue to increase. So maybe we have even less time than the one year and ten months those scientists said we have left.
If people knew this they wouldnt need to ask me why Im so passionate about climate change.
If people knew that the scientists say that we have a 5 per cent chance of meeting the Paris target, and if people knew what a nightmare scenario we will face if we dont keep global warming below 2C, they wouldnt need to ask me why Im on school strike outside parliament.
Because if everyone knew how serious the situation is and how little is actually being done, everyone would come and sit down beside us.
In Sweden, we live our lives as if we had the resources of 4.2 planets. Our individual carbon footprint is one of the worst in the world. This means that Sweden steals 3.2 years of natural resources from future generations every year. Those of us who are part of these future generations would like Sweden to stop doing that.
Right now.
This is not a political text. Our school strike has nothing to do with party politics.
Because the climate and the biosphere dont care about our politics and our empty words for a single second.
They only care about what we actually do.
This is a cry for help.
To all the newspapers who still dont write about and report on climate change, even though they said that the climate was the critical question of our time when the Swedish forests were burning this summer.
To all of you who have never treated this crisis as a crisis.
To all the influencers who stand up for everything except the climate and the environment.
To all the political parties that pretend to take the climate question seriously.
To all the politicians that ridicule us on social media, and have named and shamed me so that people tell me that Im retarded, a bitch and a terrorist, and many other things.
To all of you who choose to look the other way every day because you seem more frightened of the changes that can prevent catastrophic climate change than the catastrophic climate change itself.
Your silence is almost worst of all.
The future of all the coming generations rests on your shoulders.
Those of us who are still children cant change what you do now once were old enough to do something about it.
A lot of people say that Sweden is a small country, that it doesnt matter what we do. But I think that if a few girls can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school for a few weeks, imagine what we could do together if we wanted to.
Every single person counts.
Just like every single emission counts.
Every single kilo.
Everything counts.
So please, treat the climate crisis like the acute crisis it is and give us a future.
Our lives are in your hands.
Parliament Square, London, October 31, 2018
When I was about eight years old, I first heard about something called climate change, or global warming. Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living. I was told to turn off the lights to save energy, and to recycle paper to save resources.
I remember thinking that it was very strange that humans, who are an animal species among others, could be capable of changing the earths climate.
Because, if we were and if it was really happening, we wouldnt be talking about anything else. As soon as you turned on the TV, everything would be about that. Headlines, radio, newspapers. You would never read or hear about anything else. As if there was a world war going on.
But. No one talked about it. Ever.
If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence, how could we just continue like before? Why were there no restrictions? Why wasnt it made illegal?
To me, that did not add up. It was too unreal.
I have Aspergers syndrome, and to me, almost everything is black or white.
I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before. If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival. Either we go on as a civilization or we dont.
We have to change.
Countries like Sweden and the UK need to start reducing emissions by at least 15 per cent every year, to stay below a 2C warming target.
But, as the IPCC has recently stated, aiming instead for a 1.5C target would significantly reduce the climate impact. But we can only imagine what that means for reducing emissions. You would think every one of our leaders and the media would be talking about nothing else but no one ever mentions it. Nor does anyone ever mention anything about the greenhouse gases already locked in the system, nor that air pollution is hiding a warming, so when we stop burning fossil fuels, we already have an extra 0.51.1C guaranteed.
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