"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you."

"You say you hear us, and that you understand the urgency. But no matter how sad and angry I am, I do not want to believe that. Because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing …"

"I am just speaking the truth, because no one else is doing it."

"We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things."

"The scientific consensus is clear: we need to act now. Not tomorrow, not next week, but now."