Greta Thunberg is above it. The 17-year-old Swedish climate activist spoke at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday where we told all business leaders, bankers and politicians who listened that they needed to get together if we were to survive the climate crisis.
The weather problem is growing more urgent by the day. Thunberg knows a lot. Look only in Australia, where there are bushfires they are threatening cities and wildlife between extreme heat and drought. We keep breaking the heat records around the world All suffer: the oceans, forests, people, the Arctic and even releasing Pokémon (Well that's not the real world but still!).
Ironically, Thunberg is 100 percent correct. We need to panic.
"Our house is on fire," he said. "Your unemployment is burning in an hour, and we tell you to pretend to love your children above all else."
Thunberg's warning to WEF's collected and powerful ports. Experts voted by the WEF for their annual risk report cite climate crisis and other issues as the major threats we face today (including hackers like Thunberg now threatening the situation). Dealing with the climate crisis will require significant change. Planting trees is not enough The slow down is not. The world needs to stop carbon pollution altogether or we are all in great danger.
The fossil fuel sector has spent decades supporting climate denial and unemployment. And dividends paid off as profits increased. It also means as Thunberg rightly said, politicians on everything it ends of the political party that allowed it to happen should be blamed (though some politicians have left-wingers apparently to try in order change that).
"This is not right or left," he said. "We have little to do with your party's politics. With the vision of sustainability, right, left, and center, everything has failed."
Young people around the world have risen to call the global failure to address the climate crisis. The movement saw the students take to the streets and strike and use international and nationally legal mechanisms to hold leaders accountable. They grow in appearance power halls to state their demands. In front of Davos, Thunberg and other youth climate activists set those requirements on the part of the Keeper. In his speech, he was again.
"We want, at the World Economic Forum this year, participants from all companies, banks, institutions, and governments to immediately stop all investment in oil and gas extraction, immediately cut off all subsidies, and immediately exit the fossil fuels," Thunberg said, noting that these actions need to be done immediately.
There has been an ongoing shift in the financial community recently regarding the milling machines. Goldman Sachs recently announced that i will not pay to dig at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge after nations put pressure on the bank. Blackrock, the world's largest asset management company bowed to the pressure of activists lately refining its petroleum investment portfolio. There is still a lot of information being spent and billions of dollars flowing into the old oil industry, but money is starting to speak out. Activists like Thunberg are a big reason why, and they won't stop anytime soon.
“Either you do this, or you have to explain to your children why you release the 1.5 degree target, you give it up without trying,” he said. "I'm here to tell you that, unlike you, my generation will not give up without a fight."