Transcripts For CSPAN Greta Thunberg Remarks At U.N. Climate

CSPAN Greta Thunberg Remarks At U.N. Climate Conference July 14, 2024

Be watching you. [applause] this is all wrong. I shouldnt 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, im one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ok systems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. Ow dare you . [cheers and applause] for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that youre 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 about then you would be evil. And that, i refuse to believe. [applause] the popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 chance of staying below 1. 5 degrees at the risk of setting off irreversal Chain Reactions beyond human control. 50 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 in climate justice. They also rely on my generations sucking hundreds of billions of air of your co2 out of the 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 67 chance of staying below a 1. 5 degrees of global temperature rise, the best odds given by the ipccc, the world had 420 giga tons of co2 back on january 1st, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 giga tons. How dare you pretend that this can be solve as business as usual wit some technical solution . With todays emissions levels that remaining co2 budget will be entirely gone with a less than eight and a half years. There will be no 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. Youre 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 ay, we will never forgive you. [applause] announcer cspans washington journal live with policy issues that impact you. Coming up Tuesday Morning a discussion on whistleblower laws that apply to the Intelligence Community with the national istleblower centers David Colapinto and ro canha shares a discussion about the whistleblower complaint. Well talk with travis weber about Trump Administration religious freedom policies. Washington cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern Tuesday Morning. Join the discussion. Live tuesday on the cspan networks, President Trump makes remarks at the united nationss General Assembly in new york city. Our coverage begins at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. At noon eastern, the u. S. House returns for general speeches. And at 2 00 p. M. , the house takes up several bills looking at humanitarian aid. On cspan2, at 10 00 a. M. , the u. S. Senate continues debate on executive nominations with votes expected. On cspan 3, a House Oversight subcommittee examines the outbreak of lung disease among ecigarette users with testimony rom a c. D. C. Official. Later at 2 30 eastern, a Senate Foreign relations subcommittee looks at u. S. Policy towards syria. Go shopping an seed whats now available at the cspan online store including our all new campaign 2020 tshirts, sweat shirts and hats. Go to cspanstore. Org and browse all our products. Over the weekend, white house counselor Kellyanne Conway spoke at a Republican Party ohio dinner. She talked about the campaign and listed some of President Trumps accomplishments in office. This is 50 minutes. [applause] good evening. Ohio. Vening, thank you. Thank you. Kellyanne good evening, ohio. Thank you. Thank you. Please, enjoy your meal. Oh, they got quiet. T

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