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Tackle climate change with logic instead of alarmism | Mint
Remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist? This is an excerpt from her famous 2019 speech Remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish climate activist? This is an excerpt from her famous 2019 speech. “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," Thunberg told the United Nations. “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 at the beginning of mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

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