Climate activist Greta Thunberg has coauthored an open letter to the European Union and to other global leaders demanding action to solve the climate crisis.
“You must stop pretending that we can solve the climate and ecological crisis without treating it as a crisis,” the letter begins, before listing demands like the halt of “all investments in fossil fuel exploration and extraction” and a call to “treat the climate and ecological emergency like an emergency.”
“The longer we keep pretending that we are on a reliable path to lower emissions and that the actions required to avoid a climate disaster are available within today’s system – or for that matter that we can solve a crisis without treating it like one – the more precious time we will lose,” the letter says, continuing, “the people in power today have so far practically already given up on the possibility of handing over a decent future for coming generations. They have given up without even trying.”
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Thunberg is one of several thousand activists, climate scientists, economists, and celebrities who signed the open letter—including Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who met Thunberg in February at the University of Oxford, where she is a student.
Yousafzai posted a photo of the two together on Twitter with the comment: “She’s the only friend I’d skip school for.”
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Leonardo DiCaprio, who praised Thunberg as “a leader of our time” in an Instagram post last year, also signed the letter.
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Other actors, activists, and writers who have signed, include: Priyanka Chopra, Shawn Mendes, Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding, Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, The 1975, Juliette Binoche, Mark Ruffalo, Jameela Jamil, and Naomi Klein.
Read the letter in full, here.
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