Emissions Quotes

You must unite behind the science. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option.

– Greta Thunberg

Environmental activist’s call to US Congress to reduce carbon emissions, saying US is “biggest carbon polluter in history”. Washington DC, 17 September 2019.

For 25 years, countless of people have stood in front of the United Nations Climate Change conference asking our nations’ leaders to stop the emissions. But clearly this has not worked, since the emissions just continue to rise.

– Greta Thunberg

There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.

– Greta Thunberg

Demanding action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, at European Economic and Social Committee plenary session.

But perhaps the most dangerous misconception about the climate crisis is that we have to ‘lower’ our emissions. Because that is far from enough…The fact that we are speaking of ‘lowering’ instead of ‘stopping’ emissions is perhaps the greatest force behind the continuing business as usual.

– Greta Thunberg

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