'Our house is still on fire': Greta Thunberg's full speech at the World Economic Forum

Climate activist Greta Thunberg told delegates: "planting trees is good of course, but it's nowhere near enough. It cannot replace mitigation."

She accused leaders of "cheating and fiddling around with numbers" by talking about cutting emissions to net-zero and added that her calls for more action were based on science, not on irrational fears.

"My generation will not give up without a fight," she said.

Watch her full speech here.

[Egerman]

Sooo...do we want to make bets when this comment section will be shut down?

[Maxpetes]

Rather than listening to her message, people are commenting on her looks. There is something horribly wrong here. Here is why the 'house is on fire' :
-The extinction rate is at a minimum of 1000 times the regular rate (upper estimates at 10, 000x).
-60% of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since 1970 are now gone.
-We've lost 75% of the insect biomass since the 70's.
-2.3 million km2 of forested land was cut down from 2000 to 2012. The rate is speeding up.
-75% of tropical reefs faced bleaching and 30% died between 2014 and 2017,


Just look at the data. It's not nice, and we don't get to feel good about it.

[FaithwalkerTodd]

She practiced this speech 178 times in front of a mirror.

[frosty]

who is writing her speeches because when she has not got one when interviewed she has not  got a clue what to say

[petadee]

She’s wrong, she says this isn’t about right or left. It’s 100% left.

[platinumpig]

Who is her intended audience ?
Seems like she is preaching to the choir.
The choir that all agree that it is everybody else's fault but their own no matter how extravagant their lifestyle is.

[gtwzlyo]

Many people even don’t have a house in my poor countries.

[mwei]

So basically she’s suggesting that we should live barbarically and off grid

[oliverjeffries]

She is trying to save humanity, not the planet, we need the Earth a lot more than it needs us.

[morganmaclean]

She's 17 years old and she still dresses like a 12 year old

[jerrystahl]

Is it just me or does anyone think she's a puppet?

[magichandpuppet]

Why isn't she wearing her Antifa shirt?

[JustBRett]

If everyone was to stick one finger in one of their nostrils we could cut human CO2 emissions by half overnight.

[emperorscoubs]

She also wants Europe to become more like Africa and to be pre-industrial.

[oliverpaulus]

Don t be unfair. Everything she says ist right. No matter who wrote the speech. We must be thankfull that she does the job. Somebody must do it.

[gnerlmssv]

i couldn't find one factual mistake, important content.

[pacoramirez]

Greta Thunberg: "We need to get to zero emissions"
Also Greta Thunberg: "The technology doesn't exist yet and maybe never will"
Talk of change is great, but it's all this girl is. She doesn't have any actual solutions and she admits here that no one does.

[gabor]

How is she allowed to speak there? Who’s her agent? If I wanted to give a speech at Davos they wouldn’t let me anywhere near the place

[LuisSilva-qejm]

bla blá blá blá.... solutions girl!! not words

[tritonx]

Everybody: Who told her the word "cohesive"?
Greta: The scientists did