"I want to challenge those who claim to be leaders to step up and take responsibility."

"The climate crisis is both the easiest and the hardest issue we have ever faced. The easiest because we know what we must do. The hardest because our current economics are still totally dependent on b…"

"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean."

"Our environment is being sacrificed for the opportunity for a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money."

"We are facing the sixth mass extinction, and the current rate of species extinction is 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than what is considered normal."