00:00My message to Greta Thunberg because she has been cyber bullied and as well facing the attacks of
00:07climate deniers is to continue what you're doing because when climate deniers feel threatened by
00:12how your activism and the message and influence you have then you are really making a difference.
00:30I want to make a melody.
01:00We become the bad guys who have to tell people these uncomfortable things because no one else
01:12wants to or dares to and just for quoting and acting on these numbers these scientific facts
01:22we receive unimaginable amounts of hate and threats.
01:30So
01:38definitely in my own community I've been called brainwashed, I've been
01:43set. People have told me that I'm just mouthing the words of adults. I've even been called what's
01:50what's known as a watermelon where I appear to be green on the outside but it's like a socialist
01:55red communist whatever in the inside just people are saying I'm radical
02:00and all I'm saying is I want a better future for myself.
02:11I think immediately we need to recognize that continuing burning fossil fuels
02:15is making the problem worse every single minute of every single day. Second we need to make sure
02:21that we are moving our money away from fossil fuel infrastructure and moving that towards
02:26building renewable energy and making sure that our investments in that are really what is driving
02:33the economy to grow.
02:39So
02:48the way we are going to mobilize and share our message with other students is going to become
02:53more extreme and we're going to continue to do so as well as on the big global climate strike days
02:59but we are going to get more consistent in the ways we do direct action because right now it's
03:04the most hope we've had in a long time.
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