The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg

Translator: Akinori Oyama Reviewer: Peter van de Ven

Translator: Oyama Akinori Reviewer: Nika Kotnik

When I was about eight years old,

Ko sem imela kakih osem let,

I first heard about something called climate change or global warming.

sem prvič slišala za podnebne spremembe ali globalno segrevanje.

Apparently, that was something humans had created by our way of living.

To naj bi bilo nekaj, kar smo ljudje ustvarili s svojim načinom življenja.

I was told to turn off the lights to save energy

Naučila sem se ugasniti luč in tako varčevati z energijo

and to recycle paper to save resources.

ter reciklirati papir, da bi varčevala z viri.

I remember thinking that it was very strange

Spomnim se, da se mi je zdelo zelo čudno,

that humans, who are an animal species among others,

da so ljudje, ki so pravzaprav le ena od živalskih vrst,

sposobni spremeniti Zemljino podnebje.

could be capable of changing the Earth's climate.

Because if we were, and if it was really happening,

Ker če je to res in če se to res dogaja,

we wouldn't be talking about anything else.

potem bi morali govoriti samo o tem.

As soon as you'd turn on the TV, everything would be about that.

Vse na televiziji bi moralo biti o tem.

Headlines, radio, newspapers,

Naslovi, radio, časopisi

you would never read or hear about anything else,

ne bi omenjali ničesar drugega,

as if there was a world war going on.

kot da smo v svetovni vojni.

But no one ever talked about it.

Ampak o tem ni nihče govoril.

If burning fossil fuels was so bad that it threatened our very existence,

Če so fosilna goriva tako grozna, da ogrožajo naš obstoj,

how could we just continue like before?

kako lahko še naprej živimo na tak način?

Why were there no restrictions?

Zakaj ni omejitev?

Why wasn't it made illegal?

Zakaj to ni protizakonito?

To me, that did not add up.

Zame to ni imelo smisla.

It was too unreal.

Preveč neresnično je bilo.

So when I was 11, I became ill.

In tako sem pri enajstih letih zbolela.

I fell into depression,

Postala sem depresivna.

I stopped talking,

Nehala sem govoriti

and I stopped eating.

in nehala jesti.

In two months, I lost about 10 kilos of weight.

V dveh mesecih sem izgubila 10 kilogramov.

Later on, I was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome,

Kasneje sem dobila diagnozo: Aspergerjev sindrom,

OCD and selective mutism.

obsesivno-kompulzivna motnja in selektivni mutizem.

That basically means I only speak when I think it's necessary -

To pomeni, da govorim samo, kadar menim, da je nujno.

now is one of those moments.

In zdaj je tak trenutek.

(Applause)

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For those of us who are on the spectrum,

Za tiste, ki smo na spektru,

almost everything is black or white.

je skoraj vse črno ali belo.

We aren't very good at lying,

Ne znamo dobro lagati

and we usually don't enjoy participating in this social game

in ponavadi ne uživamo v tej družabni igri,

that the rest of you seem so fond of.

ki je vam ostalim tako všeč.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones,

Mislim, da smo na več načinov ljudje z avtizmom normalni,

and the rest of the people are pretty strange,

ostali pa so dokaj čudni,

(Laughter)

(smeh)

especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis,

sploh ko gre za krizo trajnosti,

where everyone keeps saying climate change is an existential threat

kjer vsi pravijo, da so podnebne spremembe grožnja za naš obstoj

and the most important issue of all,

ter najpomembnejša tema od vseh,

and yet they just carry on like before.

pa vseeno živijo, kot so doslej.

I don't understand that,

Tega ne razumem,

because if the emissions have to stop,

kajti če se morajo izpusti nehati,

then we must stop the emissions.

potem jih moramo mi končati.

To me that is black or white.

Zame je to črno ali belo.

There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

Ni sivih con, ko gre za preživetje.

Either we go on as a civilization or we don't.

Kot civilizacija bomo preživeli ali pa ne.

We have to change.

Spremeniti se moramo.

Bogate države, kot je Švedska, morajo začeti zmanjševati izpuste

Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions

by at least 15 percent every year.

vsaj za 15 odstotkov na leto.

And that is so that we can stay below a two-degree warming target.

To pa zato, da bomo ostali pod mejo segrevanja za dve stopinji.

Yet, as the IPCC have recently demonstrated,

Vendar je IPCC nedavno pokazal,

aiming instead for 1.5 degrees Celsius

da bi cilj 1,5 stopinje Celzija

would significantly reduce the climate impacts.

pomembno zmanjšal učinek na podnebje.

But we can only imagine what that means for reducing emissions.

Lahko si samo zamislimo, kaj to pomeni za zmanjšanje izpustov.

You would think the media and every one of our leaders

Človek bi mislil, da bodo mediji in vsi voditelji

would be talking about nothing else,

govorili samo o tem,

but they never even mention it.

ampak tega še omenjajo ne.

Nihče tudi ne omenja

Nor does anyone ever mention

the greenhouse gases already locked in the system.

toplogrednih plinov, ki so že v sistemu.

Nor that air pollution is hiding a warming

Ali pa da onesnažen zrak v sebi skriva segrevanje,

so that when we stop burning fossil fuels,

tako da tudi ko bomo nehali uporabljati fosilna goriva,

we already have an extra level of warming

se bo dodatno segrevanje nadaljevalo,

perhaps as high as 0.5 to 1.1 degrees Celsius.

morda za 0,5 ali 1,1 stopinje Celzija.

Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact

Še več, skoraj nihče ne govori o tem,

that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction,

da smo sredi šestega množičnega izumrtja,

with up to 200 species going extinct every single day,

kjer vsak dan izumre do 200 vrst,

that the extinction rate today

ter da je hitrost izumiranja danes

is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher

med tisočkrat in deset tisočkrat hitrejša

than what is seen as normal.

od običajne.

Nor does hardly anyone ever speak about the aspect of equity or climate justice,

Skoraj nihče ne govori o vidiku pravičnosti ali podnebne pravičnosti,

clearly stated everywhere in the Paris Agreement,

ki je jasno zapisana v Pariškem dogovoru,

which is absolutely necessary to make it work on a global scale.

ker je absolutno nujna, če hočemo, da globalni načrt deluje.

That means that rich countries

To pomeni, da morajo bogate države

need to get down to zero emissions within 6 to 12 years,

končati izpuste v 6 do 12 letih,

with today's emission speed.

če bodo ohranile trenutni tempo.

And that is so that people in poorer countries

To pa zato, da tisti v revnejših državah

can have a chance to heighten their standard of living

lahko izboljšajo svoj standard življenja

by building some of the infrastructure that we have already built,

ter zgradili infrastrukturo, ki jo mi že imamo,

such as roads, schools, hospitals,

kot so ceste, šole, bolnišnice,

clean drinking water, electricity, and so on.

čista pitna voda, elektrika in tako naprej.

Because how can we expect countries like India or Nigeria

Kako lahko pričakujemo, da bodo države, kot sta Indija in Nigerija,

to care about the climate crisis

kaj storile proti podnebni krizi,

if we who already have everything don't care even a second about it

če niti mi, ki imamo vse, na krizo sploh ne pomislimo

or our actual commitments to the Paris Agreement?

in nas ne zanimajo zaveze iz Pariškega dogovora?

So, why are we not reducing our emissions?

Zakaj ne zmanjšujemo izpustov?

Why are they in fact still increasing?

Zakaj še vedno naraščajo?

Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction?

Ali zavestno povzročamo množično izumiranje?

Are we evil?

Smo zlobni?

No, of course not.

Seveda ne.

People keep doing what they do

Ljudje to počnemo,

because the vast majority doesn't have a clue

ker se večina ne zaveda

about the actual consequences of our everyday life,

posledic vsakdanjega življenja

and they don't know that rapid change is required.

in ker ne vedo, da potrebujemo hitre spremembe.

We all think we know, and we all think everybody knows,

Vsi mislimo, da vemo ter da vsi vedo,

but we don't.

ampak ne drži.

Because how could we?

Kako bi sploh lahko vedeli?

If there really was a crisis,

Če bi bila res kriza,

and if this crisis was caused by our emissions,

ki bi jo povzročali naši izpusti,

potem bi videli kakšne znake.

you would at least see some signs.

Not just flooded cities, tens of thousands of dead people,

Ne samo poplavljenih mest, na desettisoče mrtvih,

and whole nations leveled to piles of torn down buildings.

ne samo celotnih držav v ruševinah.

You would see some restrictions.

Videli bi kakšne omejitve.

But no.

Ampak ne.

And no one talks about it.

In nihče ne govori o tem.

There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news.

Ni nujnih sestankov, velikih naslovov, pomembnih novic.

No one is acting as if we were in a crisis.

Nihče se ne obnaša, kot da smo v krizi.

Even most climate scientists or green politicians

Celo večina podnebnih znanstvenikov in zelenih politikov

keep on flying around the world, eating meat and dairy.

še naprej leti po svetu, jé meso in mlečne izdelke.

If I live to be 100, I will be alive in the year 2103.

Če bom doživela sto let, bom leta 2103 še živa.

When you think about the future today, you don't think beyond the year 2050.

Ko danes razmišljate o prihodnosti, ne mislite dlje od leta 2050.

By then, I will, in the best case, not even have lived half of my life.

Do tedaj ne bom preživela niti pol življenja, če bo vse prav.

What happens next?

Kaj pa potem?

The year 2078, I will celebrate my 75th birthday.

Leta 2078 bom stara 75 let.

If I have children or grandchildren, maybe they will spend that day with me.

Če bom imela otroke in vnuke, bodo morda na ta dan z menoj.

Maybe they will ask me about you,

Morda bodo vprašali po vas,

the people who were around, back in 2018.

po ljudeh iz leta 2018.

Maybe they will ask why you didn't do anything

Morda bodo vprašali, zakaj niste storili nič.

while there still was time to act.

ko je bil še čas.

What we do or don't do right now will affect my entire life

Kar naredimo ali opustimo zdaj, bo vplivalo na vse moje življenje

and the lives of my children and grandchildren.

in na življenja mojih otrok in vnukov.

What we do or don't do right now,

Tega, kar naredimo ali ne zdaj,

me and my generation can't undo in the future.

jaz in moja generacija v bodoče ne moremo spremeniti.

So when school started in August of this year,

Ko se je avgusta začela šola,

I decided that this was enough.

sem se zato odločila, da je dovolj.

I set myself down on the ground outside the Swedish parliament.

Usedla sem se na tla pred švedskim parlamentom.

I school striked for the climate.

Špricala sem šolo za podnebje.

Some people say that I should be in school instead.

Nekateri pravijo, da bi morala biti v šoli.

Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist

Drugi pravijo, naj študiram ter postanem strokovnjakinja za podnebje,

so that I can "solve the climate crisis."

da bom "rešila podnebno krizo".

But the climate crisis has already been solved.

Ampak kriza je že rešena.

We already have all the facts and solutions.

Imamo dejstva in rešitve.

All we have to do is to wake up and change.

Zdaj se moramo samo zbuditi in se spremeniti.

And why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more

Zakaj naj študiram za prihodnost, ki je kmalu ne bo več,

when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future?

če nihče ne naredi nič, da bi to prihodnost rešil?

And what is the point of learning facts in the school system

Kakšen smisel ima, da se učim dejstva,

when the most important facts

ko pa najpomembnejša dejstva,

given by the finest science of that same school system

ki jih daje najboljša znanost tega šolskega sistema,

clearly means nothing to our politicians and our society.

očitno ne pomenijo nič našim politikom in družbi?

Some people say that Sweden is just a small country,

Nekateri pravijo, da je Švedska le majhna država,

and that it doesn't matter what we do,

da ni važno, kaj storimo,

but I think that if a few children can get headlines all over the world

ampak mislim da, če nekaj otrok po svetu pride na naslovnice,

just by not coming to school for a few weeks,

ker par tednov niso šli v šolo,

imagine what we could all do together if you wanted to.

potem si zamislite, kaj lahko dosežemo skupaj, če le hočete.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

Now we're almost at the end of my talk,

Sem skoraj pri koncu govora,

and this is where people usually start talking about hope,

in ljudje na tej točki ponavadi govorijo o upanju,

solar panels, wind power, circular economy, and so on,

sončnih celicah, vetrni energiji, krožni ekonomiji in tako naprej,

but I'm not going to do that.

jaz pa ne bom.

We've had 30 years of pep-talking and selling positive ideas.

Imeli smo 30 let prigovarjanja in prodajanja pozitivnih idej.

And I'm sorry, but it doesn't work.

Žal mi je, a to ne deluje.

Because if it would have,

Ker če bi delovalo,

the emissions would have gone down by now.

bi se izpusti že zmanjšali.

They haven't.

Pa se niso.

And yes, we do need hope,

Ja, potrebujemo upanje,

of course we do.

seveda ga.

But the one thing we need more than hope is action.

Še bolj kot upanje pa potrebujemo delovanje.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.

Ko začnemo delovati, je upanje povsod.

So instead of looking for hope,

Namesto iskanja upanja

look for action.

torej iščite delovanje.

Then, and only then, hope will come.

Šele potem bo upanje prišlo.

Today, we use 100 million barrels of oil every single day.

Trenutno vsak dan porabimo 100 milijonov sodčkov nafte.

There are no politics to change that.

Nobena politika tega ne bo spremenila.

There are no rules to keep that oil in the ground.

Ni pravil, po katerih mora nafta ostati pod zemljo.

So we can't save the world by playing by the rules,

Zato ne bomo rešili sveta z igranjem po pravilih,

because the rules have to be changed.

saj moramo pravila spremeniti.

Everything needs to change --

Vse se mora spremeniti

and it has to start today.

in začeti moramo danes.

Hvala.

Thank you.

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