“Maybe we will apologize for making you late for work, when you say sorry for ruining our future” — James Mair, Amnesty International member
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. — Albert Einstein
Today we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day. There are no politics to change that. There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.
So we can’t save the world by playing by the rules. Because the rules have to be changed.
So we have not come here to beg the world leaders to care for our future. They have ignored us in the past and they will ignore us again.
We have come here to let them know that change is coming whether they like it or not. The people will rise to the challenge. And since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.
- Greta Thunberg, speaking before UN Secretary General António Guterres, December, 2018
Governor Inslee is way out in front of the other politicians on this issue and even he does not go as far and as fast as these people (and I) think is necessary. The American public is not prepared to hear about it because the news media and our politicians have chosen to keep them in the dark.
“You can’t handle the truth”
Carbon taxes will not do it (alone). Market forces will not do it (alone) [sorry, Senator Warren]. The Green New Deal will not do it (alone). The ultimate solutions to this crisis are not going to come from Washington, but that does not mean we can let them off the hook either.