GRETA THUNBERG GAVE A CLIMATE SPEECH JULY 23, 2019. This post is a transcrption of the speech but not as delivered but as interpreted by the transcript writer. 

1. OK so the world will not end in the year 2030. I know I used to say stuff like that but I changed my mind. The new program is this. By the year 2030, if we continue with business as usual we will likely be in a position where we may pass a number of tipping points. The first tipping point is that I have been coached on the use of words like LIKELY, MIGHT, COULD, and MAY because they allow you to say stuff without the possibility of being held accountable. Another tipping point is that we might no longer be able to undo the irreversible climate breakdown.
2. I am not sure what an irreversible climate breakdown is or how that differs from a reversible climate breakdown but I am sure it is something so horrible that you don’t want to take a chance of going there. A lot of politicians, business leaders, and journalists say that they don’t agree with what we are saying and that is probably because they don’t know the meaning of the words LIKELY, MIGHT, COULD, and MAY. They say that we are exaggerating, that we are alarmists. Tell me something, do I sound like an alarmist? If I were an alarmist, would I use nice phrases like “climate breakdown” and “tipping point”? Of course not.
3. But anyway NOT ONCE! NOT ONE SINGLE TIME, have I heard any of these guys mention these numbers. I am not sure what numbers I am talking about but that’s what it says on the teleprompter. It is almost like they don’t even know they exist. Maybe they haven’t even read the latest IPCC report on which the future of our civilization is depending . Can you imagine being a politician or business leader or journalist and not reading the latest IPCC report?
4. In case you are unaware, the phrase “latest IPCC report” is synonymous with the phrase “the word of God”. Maybe these guys are simply not mature enough to tell it like it is. Because even that burden they have left to us children. I know it was climate activists and climate scientists that got us to skip school so we can do this instead but it sounds really cool if I blame the politicians instead.
5. We the children thus become the bad guys who have to tell people these uncomfortable things that the IPCC writes and nobody reads. The reason it is now up to us to tell you these uncomfortable things is that neither the IPCC, nor climate activists like Gore and Bill McKibben, nor climate scientists like Stefan Rahmstorf and  Myles Allen, are willing to do it. This is why they had to turn to grooming children into the climate activism business.
6. And just for quoting and acting on these numbers, these scientific facts, we the groomed children received unimaginable amounts of hate and threats and we are being mocked and lied about by elected officials, members of parliament, business leaders, and journalists. It is thus that the groomed children shield climate scientists and activists from this kind of abuse.
7. As for climate science you should know that you can’t just make up your own facts just because you don’t like what you hear! There is no middle ground when it comes to the climate and its ecological emergency. But political leaders in some countries are starting to talk the way we want them to talk. They are starting to declare climate emergencies and announcing dates for reaching climate neutrality.
8. Declaring a climate emergency is a good thing but there is a danger here that politicians and business leaders are creating appearances of climate action when in fact there is nothing of substance being done apart from clever carbon accounting and creative PR. The climate and ecological emergency is right here right now!  There is nowhere to hide. The climate apocalypse has only just begun and it will get worse. In fact, since I started this speech, the world has emitted about 800,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
9. Some people have chosen not to come here today. Some people have chosen not to listen to us. Well, that’s just fine! We are after all just a bunch of groomed children mouthing the words we have been told to say. You don’t have to listen to us. But you do have to listen to the UNITED SCIENCE OF AMERICA! And that is all we ask. Just UNITE BEHIND THE SCIENCE. Thank you and I hope I did a good job and that my groomers are happy with what I did up here.

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