Topic: My message is that we'll be watching you.
Anonymous A started this discussion 6 years ago #94,997
"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!"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!
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 4 minutes later[^] [v] #1,073,102
Why aren't the usual loonies upset about her white privilege?Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 26 seconds later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,103
Oh dear... Svet and the NZ troll are going to come in here now and bully this child.
Anonymous B replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,104
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 7 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,106
I thought this thread was going to be about Sting.Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 5 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,109
There's no change coming, there's only a giant annual blood bath on its way. Waste is the byproduct of capitalism and there's no current replacement for capitalism, nothing except for a poverty spawning dictatorship like communism.
Meta !Sober//iZs joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 13 minutes later, 25 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,116
I didn't steal shit from you Greta ?
Fuck off back to Sweden on your little vegan sailboat and leave us alone already ?
Fuck off back to Sweden on your little vegan sailboat and leave us alone already ?
Anonymous E replied with this 6 years ago, 4 minutes later, 30 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,120
@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
I wouldn't laugh if I were you, it's a person seeking justice against a undefined enemy. People like you and me, we might just be turned into the criminals. That's what Greta means, growing anger with no rational outlet.
I wouldn't laugh if I were you, it's a person seeking justice against a undefined enemy. People like you and me, we might just be turned into the criminals. That's what Greta means, growing anger with no rational outlet.
Meta !Sober//iZs replied with this 6 years ago, 2 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,121
@previous (E)
The enemy is Western civilization. These people want to live like savages in mud huts eating bugs.
The enemy is Western civilization. These people want to live like savages in mud huts eating bugs.
Anonymous E replied with this 6 years ago, 5 minutes later, 38 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,073,128
@previous (Meta !Sober//iZs)
That's no comfort if that's what you are going for. The powers that matter, as I understand it, are armed to the teeth with weapons that would make the dark ages look like a day in a kindergarten. Should we, the western civilization, suddenly stop wanting all that we currently want and buy, well, the whole capitalist system would collapse and suddenly there's a lot of angry people with bo way to live and a will to end it all in any way possible.
That's no comfort if that's what you are going for. The powers that matter, as I understand it, are armed to the teeth with weapons that would make the dark ages look like a day in a kindergarten. Should we, the western civilization, suddenly stop wanting all that we currently want and buy, well, the whole capitalist system would collapse and suddenly there's a lot of angry people with bo way to live and a will to end it all in any way possible.
