Climate activist Luisa Neubauer (Fridays for Future) delivers a powerful and passionate speech reflecting on the state of the climate movement and the critical choices society is facing today.
Addressing the world’s shifting attitudes toward climate action, she challenges attendees to choose between “common sense” and what she calls “crazy town.”
We can no longer deny that global warming is real, and the effect of human action, she argues. “You will have to get increasingly irrational with basically everything around us” to stick to this narrative, Neubauer says.
Playing “hide and seek with the planet” cannot work, she adds, pointing to trillions of U.S. dollars in damage caused by droughts, flooding, damage to crops, and more. “To gamble against our own future is the most irrational thing you can do.”
Neubauer highlights the critical role of young people in driving change and holding corporations and governments accountable.
But she also urges the audience to focus on taking action. Neubauer emphasizes the importance of finding allies and stresses the need to not only innovate with new solutions – but also to end practices which contribute to climate destruction, such as reliance on fossil fuels.
“If we just add new solutions and we don’t end some of the old solutions”, she warns, “we won’t get where we need to be.”
