"My message is that we'll be watching you. This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare y…"

"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human c…"

"The climate crisis is not just about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights, of justice, and of willpower. Political systems have failed. But human beings have not."

"This is not a drill. This is happening."

"I have Asperger’s, and I think in many ways that makes me see the world differently."