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We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

We can no longer save the world by playing by the rules.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Nothing is being done to stop the climate and ecological emergency from happening and to secure the future wellbeing for future generations.

I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

It's empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

The thing that's made me open my eyes to what was happening to the environment and climate was films and documentaries.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Even if the politics needed doesn't exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

I thought I couldn't make a difference because I was too small.

When I'm really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I see the world in black and white, and I don't like compromising.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes - it always does - so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I don't care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

I am an introvert; privately I am very shy, and I don't speak unless I have to.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

Most emissions aren't caused by individuals, they're caused by corporations and states.

My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.

I'm not saying that people should stop flying. I'm just saying it needs to be easier to be climate neutral.

I mean, people aren't continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don't want to. We aren't destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone - that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science.

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before.

I feel strange when I get applauded by people in power... because it's obvious that it's them I'm criticizing, but they can't show that in front of the cameras. It's quite funny sometimes.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

We are at a time in history where everyone with any insight of the climate crisis that threatens our civilisation - and the entire biosphere - must speak out in clear language, no matter how uncomfortable and unprofitable that may be.

The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. We must stop the emissions of greenhouse gases. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on burning fossil fuels, and thereby destroying ecosystems in order to create everlasting economic growth.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I have promised myself that I'm going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis.' But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change.

I like school and I like learning.