Name: Greta Thunberg - Inspiring Others to Take a Stand Against Climate Change | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2020-03-01T19:50:10.000Z
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-Thank you so much. -And welcome to New York City.

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and part of me thinks that's because you love the climate;

to come and, you know, speak at the U.N. and-and, you know,

inspire people to move forward in the climate change movement?

I did it because I have, since a few years,

stopped flying because of the enormous impact

aviation has on the climate, uh, individually.

And, uh, I am one of the very few people in the world

I mean, I know I wouldn't do that as a kid,

-and I wouldn't do it now. Um... -(laughter)

But what-what is inspiring is your determination,

and what's inspiring is that it doesn't just affect

People are starting to call it "The Greta Effect,"

Your mom is an opera singer and she stopped flying,

which means she couldn't perform the way she used to.

Do you sometimes feel bad that she can't perform,

or are you more excited that she's not part of,

I don't care, honestly, about how she performs.

And the planet is the most important thing for you.

Yeah. I mean, for all of us, I think it should be.

between older generations and younger generations

I mean, I think it is because we, in a way,

"I won't be alive then, anyway, so screw it."

so many young people, especially, care about this.

People are still very unaware, it's my experience.

What do you think people need to learn about climate change?

Many people have heard of the climate warming up.

Some people have a small understanding of what it means,

I think pretty much everything because, I mean,

we know that something is wrong, that the planet is warming

because of increased greenhouse gas emissions,

and there will be more extreme weather events and so on.

and it is because they have not been informed.

Um, I mean, we are right now in the beginning

the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees,

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