‘You have stolen my dreams and childhood’: Tearful Greta Thunberg furiously calls out leaders at UN Climate Summit and warns: ‘You are still not mature enough to tell it like it is… the eyes of future generations are upon you’
- Environment activist Greta Thunberg furiously choked on tears while speaking at the U.N. Climate summit in New York on Monday
- The 16-year-old called out the leaders gathered there saying: ‘I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school. You have stolen my dreams and childhood’
- The UN Summit sought to get nations to make plans to stop the rise of global heat-trapping emissions, propagated by fossil fuels and energy demands
- Thunberg, who is not usually emotional in her speeches, let her fury lash out as she rebuked leaders calling them ‘not mature enough to tell it like it is’
Environment activist Greta Thunberg furiously choked on tears while speaking at the United Nations Climate Summit on Monday, where she thundered against leaders for stealing her generation’s future.
‘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 for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ the 16-year-old Swedish activist reprimanded at the Climate Action Summit 2019 on Monday in New York.
The UN summit sought to get nations to address and make plans to confront the rising number of global heat-trapping emissions across the globe. Such emissions have been on the rise due to energy demands and reliance on fossil fuels.
Environment activist Greta Thunberg furiously choked on tears while speaking at the United Nations Climate Summit on Monday, where she thundered against leaders for stealing her generation’s future
The 16-year-old called out the leaders gathered there saying: ‘I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school. You have stolen my dreams and childhood’
Monday’s UN Summit sought to get nations to agree to a plan of action to curb the rising number of global emissions that contribute to global warming
‘There will not be any solution or plans in line with these figures here today because these numbers are too uncomfortable and you’re not mature enough to tell it like it is,’ Thunberg, who is usually not as emotional in her speeches, said.
‘You are failing us. 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,’ she added on the brink of tears.
‘You’re not mature enough to tell it like it is,’ Thunberg, who is usually not as emotional in her speeches, said as she rebuked international leaders
Thunberg spoke at the Climate action Summit at the United Nations on Monday
‘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,’ she said to uproarious applause.
Thunberg held nothing back as she thundered against the politicians and officials at the UN climate summit.
‘You come to us young people for hope. How dare you?’ she roared.
‘You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing,’ she said.
While the United States will not be participating, China and about 70 other countries are expected to make announcements concerning climate change at the Monday summit.