You can't negotiate with nature and physics. Greta Thunberg addresses Europe
Environment — di Martina Girola
Greta Thunberg returned to the European Parliament ten months after her first speech. But nothing seems to have changed yet.
You can't negotiate with nature and physics. Greta Thunberg addresses Europe
Greta Thunberg returned to the European Parliament ten months after her first speech. But nothing seems to have changed yet.
On Wednesday 4 February, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg spoke at a meeting of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, once again denouncing the ineffective measures set out in the new climate law proposal.
"When your house is on fire and your children set off the fire alarm, you went outside, looked around and sniffed the air. You said: 'yes, the house is actually on fire.' It wasn't a false alarm. But then you went back inside, finished your dinner, watched a film and went to bed without even calling the fire brigade. I'm sorry, but none of this makes any sense. When your house is on fire, you don't wait days before putting out the flames. And yet that is exactly what the Commission is proposing today.
We don't just need targets for 2030 or 2050. We need targets for 2020 first and foremost, and for every year to come. We need to drastically cut emissions at source. Now.
The European Union must lead. You have a moral obligation to do so. You yourselves have said that we are facing an environmental and climate emergency. You said it was a threat to our existence. Now you have to show that you truly mean it.
Everything else would mean giving up, just like this law. Because nature does not compromise and you cannot negotiate with physics."