[LOCUTOR]

Track twenty-five, unit eleven, a picture is worth a thousand words

[NOAH]

What do you think people need to learn about climate change? Many people have heard of the climate warming up, some people have a small understanding of what it means, but what do you think is lacking in the understanding of this issue?

[GRETA]

I think pretty much everything because, I mean, we know that something is wrong, that the planet is warming because of increased greenhouse gas emissions, and that might lead to that the ice caps will melt, and the global temperature will rise, and there will be more extreme weather events and so on. But they, they don't understand how severe this crisis actually is, and it is because they have not been informed. Um, I mean, we are right now in the beginning of the sixth max – mass extinction, and uh, people don't know these things. Up to two hundred species go extinct every single day, and uh, people don't even know that we have for a sixty-seven% chance of limiting the global temperature rise to one point five degrees, we had on January first, two thousand and eighteen, four hundred and twenty gigatons of carbon dioxide left to emit to stay within that target, and now we're already down to less than three hundred and sixty. If we continue at the same emission level as now, we have less than eight and half years until that budget is gone according to the IPCC from the SRfifteen report. And that is for a sixty-seven % chance.