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    Greta Thunberg delivers a passionate speech to world leaders demanding action on climate change. She expresses anger that leaders are failing to address the issue despite decades of clear science. Greta notes that tipping points are being reached, entire ecosystems are collapsing, and the carbon budget will be depleted in less than a decade if emissions continue unabated. She declares that the youth will not forgive inaction and that change is inevitable, whether leaders like it or not.

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    Greta Thunberg delivers a passionate speech to world leaders demanding action on climate change. She expresses anger that leaders are failing to address the issue despite decades of clear science. Greta notes that tipping points are being reached, entire ecosystems are collapsing, and the carbon budget will be depleted in less than a decade if emissions continue unabated. She declares that the youth will not forgive inaction and that change is inevitable, whether leaders like it or not.

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    Greta Thunberg delivers a passionate speech to world leaders demanding action on climate change. She expresses anger that leaders are failing to address the issue despite decades of clear science. Greta notes that tipping points are being reached, entire ecosystems are collapsing, and the carbon budget will be depleted in less than a decade if emissions continue unabated. She declares that the youth will not forgive inaction and that change is inevitable, whether leaders like it or not.

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    Greta Thunberg delivers a passionate speech to world leaders demanding action on climate change. She expresses anger that leaders are failing to address the issue despite decades of clear science. Greta notes that tipping points are being reached, entire ecosystems are collapsing, and the carbon budget will be depleted in less than a decade if emissions continue unabated. She declares that the youth will not forgive inaction and that change is inevitable, whether leaders like it or not.

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    Demanding action for climate change

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqtXR8iPlE

    1) Listen to Greta’s speech. Use your own words to retell the message she has for world leaders. How does
    she feel when she speaks?
    2) Listen to the speech again and complete the gaps.

    Host: Greta, what’s your message for world leaders today?

    "My message is that we'll be watching you”.


    "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 __________ are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a
    mass __________ , and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal __________ __________
    . 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 __________ . 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 __________ 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 __________ chain reactions beyond human control.
    "Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback
    loops, additional __________ 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 IPCC [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 __________ , that remaining CO2 __________ 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 __________ . 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."
    Answer the following questions
    1) What is “not fair” for her?
    2) Why does she use the phrase “how dare you” many times?
    3) She says: “So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us…”. Who is she referring to when she
    says us?
    4) What will they not let leaders get away with?
    Complete the following phrases
    According to Greta:
    1) Economic growth is not as important as ________________________________.
    2) Leaders say they have done enough but solutions ________________________________.
    3) Her generation does not have the ___________________ to suck CO2 from the earth.
    4) The CO2 gigatons left to emit have decreased by ________________ in only __________
    months.
    5) Change is real, whether they ____________________________________
    Do you agree with Greta? why/not? Support your answer
    Think about a way to reduce CO2 emissions in your neighbourhood/district/city. Share your idea
    Complete transcript
    Host: Greta, what’s your message for world leaders today?

    "My message is that we'll be watching you.


    "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."

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