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I never planned
to become a climate activist,
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but now things have changed,
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and now, standing here
as a climate activist,
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I ask you all to become one too.
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Here's why,
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and most importantly, how.
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Ten years ago, when I was 13 years old,
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I first learned about
the greenhouse effect.
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Back then, we spent
90 minutes on this issue,
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and I remember finding it quite irritating
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that something so fundamental
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would be squeezed
into a single geography lesson.
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Some of this irritation remained,
so when I graduated from high school,
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I decided to study geography
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just to make sure I was on the right track
with this whole climate change thing.
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And this is when everything changed.
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This was the first time
I looked at the data,
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at the science behind the climate crisis,
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and I couldn't believe what I was reading.
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Like many of you,
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I thought that the planet
wasn't really in a good state.
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I had no idea that we are rushing
into this self-made disaster
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in such rapid pace.
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There was also the first time
I understood what difference it makes
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when you consider the bigger picture.
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Take the CO2 concentration
in the atmosphere, for instance,
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the number one driver for global warming.
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Yes, this looks bad.
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This looks like we are on
a pretty bad track,
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but it's only once you don't
just consider the last 60 years,
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but the last 10,000 years,
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that you understand
how terrifying this really is.
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And this is just one aspect
of the crisis we are seeing.
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I'm not going to get into details here,
but let me tell you so much:
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we are in a point of history
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that the most destructive force
on the planet is humanity itself.
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We are in a point of history
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that no scientist could guarantee you
that you will survive this.
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We are in a point of history
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that humanity is creating an environment
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that's not safe for humans anymore.