"I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."

"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing."

"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children."

"The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of political will."

"My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. 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 young people for hope. How dare y…"