Name: 【TED】Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change (The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg)
Uploaded: 2019-02-13T16:18:57.000Z
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Translator: Lilian Chiu Reviewer: Yuhan Wu

Past simple

I first heard about something called climate change or global warming.

Apparently, that was something humans have created by our way of living.

I was told to turn off the lights to save energy

I remember thinking that it was very strange

that humans, who are an animal species among others,

could be capable of changing the Earth's climate.

Because if we were, and if it was really happening,

we wouldn't be talking about anything else.

As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that.

you would never read or hear about anything else,

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence,

In two months, I lost about 10 kilos of weight.

Later on, I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome,

That basically means I only speak when I think it's necessary -

and we usually don't enjoy participating in this social game

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones,

and the rest of the people are pretty strange,

especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis,

where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat

There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

Either we go on as a civilization or we don't.

Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions

And that is so that we can stay below a two-degree warming target.

Yet, as the IPCC have recently demonstrated,

would significantly reduce the climate impacts.

But we can only imagine what that means for reducing emissions.

You would think the media and every one of our leaders

the greenhouse gases already locked in the system.

Nor that air pollution is hiding a warming

so that when we stop burning fossil fuels,

we already have an extra level of warming

perhaps as high as 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Celsius.

Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact

that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction,

with up to 200 species going extinct every single day,

is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than what is seen as normal.

Nor does hardly anyone ever speak about the aspect of equity or climate justice,

clearly stated everywhere in the Paris Agreement,

which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale.

need to get down to zero emissions within 6 to 12 years,

And that is so that people in poorer countries

can have a chance to heighten their standard of living

by building some of the infrastructure that we have already built,

clean drinking water, electricity, and so on.

Because how can we expect countries like India or Nigeria

if we who already have everything don't care even a second about it

or our actual commitments to the Paris Agreement?

So, why are we not reducing our emissions?

Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction?

because the vast majority doesn't have a clue

about the actual consequences of our everyday life,

and they don't know that rapid change is required.

We all think we know, and we all think everybody knows,

and if this crisis was caused by our emissions,

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