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Speech at UN Climate Change COP24 Conference


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Even that burden you leave to us children.
But I don't care about being popular.
I care about climate justice and the living planet.
Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.
Our biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury.
It is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few. The year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday.
If I have children maybe they will spend that day with me. Maybe they will ask me about you.
Maybe they will ask why you didn't do anything while there still was time to act.
You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.
Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope.