The 12-year-old who tried to warn the world about climate change | BBC Ideas 

In 1992 i was born, since then almost nothing drastic was done to change the future.

Ever wonder why there is increase in mental illness in our society?

Done, EVERYTHING in my house and art business is powered by our rooftop solar system.

I can't stop crying 😊

now go and say the same to china, russia or india

Weirdly, Thatcher made a damn good climate change speech at the UN in 1989, something present-day Tories in their worship of a myth seem to have entirely forgotten at the prompting of fossil-fuel interests.

"How dare you!"

A scientist found out about CO2 and heat radiation capture long time ago, 1965 (I was born) the Oil industry knew what there selling will harm ! 1975 Paris Agreement 2024 look now ! WE failed - and will fail further. I went down to 2 to CO2 a year for the hole family('s) /people living on this area with huge solar, even less eat meat and most chicken I reduce that also and driving is MOST when needed, fun-rides area bout 5 a year, no holiday. When I lay on my death bed I CAN look into the eyes of my daughter and proof I tried to solve it. My imagine about her future and even still mine are terrible. So far I have to write it is NOT sad about the humans, if GONE. It is sad about all the other life forms have to suffer also.

Makes you think about it all.

Aren’t we supposed to be underwater by now?

What a beautiful segment

Wow. The comments section of this video is a searing indictment of the eduction systems availed by the commenters…

*Is anyone still paying their licence fee?* *Apparently yes, as the BBC still exists.* *What a shame.*

It'd be very hard for people to remember her speech, since most people are never informed or never end up knowing how the agreements and accords that we have today have started at Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in the early 90s. People barely talk about the Kyoto Protocol these days, it's all about Paris Agreement and onwards it seems. Because of course, there is an active attempt to erase and reset these efforts, so that we forget that the promises and deals made are not being followed for almost 30 years now, the speeches are not remembered, and representatives of all these nations are free to somehow continue lying, as if the fight against Climate Change, which used to be called Global Warming, and has been going on for around a century now never happened. It's also just part of the general International Press bias that only covers the global south when it is to tell news about bad things happening. So, tough luck seeing reports on what started in a developing poor nation back then, which I will remind everyone that the US government under Bush refused to sign. I'm sick and tired of seeing the US constantly trying to hijack narratives and say something along the lines of them being on the forefront of things, or supporting this sort of activism from start. It couldn't be more distant from the truth. Even before Earth Summit came to be, US was an active denier in all of this. And even today, it cannot be said that there is a real active push and effort there - it's all coming down to economics. And even then, there are so many obstacles to change that it's kinda ridiculous. Renewables have become cheap to the point of it being only logical to invest into it with an economical mindset, particularly for countries with several national grid issues, but still there seems to be a grumpy ever present obstacle behind the scenes, even when it makes economical sense. So yeah... I think we're at the point where tons of people who used to care about this are just tired of it. With Climate Change catastrophes happening multiple times a year in all parts of the world, and those in power still not caring enough to make the logical changes, instead acting to turn attention into ideological and political wars, actual wars for territory, insane amounts of money put into an effective genocide, and a nuclear war threat ever present going up again into half a century old record levels. And we're still not only not reversing things - we're still accelerating towards it. I was still a kid when Rio Summit happened, just a few years younger than Mrs Suzuki there, but I do remember how much we talked about this in schools back then. So I don't personally believe in the narrative of intergenerational incompatibility or ideals, old people know full well about this too - what happened is that it's becoming increasingly rare to find people who will fight for this. And it'll become worse as Climate Change advances, until too many people are dead because of it. It's a problem with scale. You know when governments will start acting with true attention and focus on it? It's when their countries are left half destroyed for a prolonged period of time, in a debt crisis so deep they cannot avoid looking at it all day, everyday. That's when. Which coincidence or not, might be happening right now in Brazil. Brazil had a flood event so severe it put huge portions of one of it's richest states underwater. The severity of the event was aggravated by a denialist far right administration that refused to believe in Climate Change, took out all funds from regulatory agencies and disaster prevention efforts due to Agribusiness lobby, and trashed every single public effort they could to address environmental worries - and this happened with support and lobbying from the richest companies and people in the nation. This time, no right wing closeted racist politician can claim this happened because people build their homes in high risk areas, and brush it off as if this has nothing to do with government - this time it affected an entire state. Even people who wouldn't normally care about this, cannot turn an eye. And when the time to hunt for answers come, no amount of fake news production and conspiracy theories will erase the role that a far wing anti democratic government had on this. If the tables will really be turned, I'm not sure. People are so entrenched in ideological and political wars these days that they'll vouch for their favorite politician even if it kills them and their family - the pandemic was and continues being a wake up call for this. It's just completely defeatist how people continues vouching for, if not downright idolizing politicians behind hundreds of thousands of deaths because of their rejection of science and vaccines. We're becoming a species not worth saving, not worth lasting for another century. But we'll be living with this disaster on the news for a very long time, and it'll give less and less opportunity for denialists to pop up, or convince people with their stupid conspiracy theories. So we'll see. I think lots of countries in the world should be paying attention to what will happen in Brazil in the immediate future. The scariest thing about Climate Change is exactly what happened in the South. A sudden climate related event that destroys a huge portion of a country. No country in the world is safe from this happening now. It's how people reacts to this that might determine whether our species has a future on this planet or not.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="34">0:34</a> #NoHiddenAgenda what great opening line

And the conclusions are no answers. None of the involved into this catastrophe give a least care to what she said.

You can push for progress with governments & then they need to act to push the masses forward, it’s the only way 🧐

I can use air conditioner all day.🤣

We were talking about global warming when I was a child and jimmy carter was in office. It’s rather horrible to watch all the deniers gain traction. It’s as if we have gone backwards. It’s honestly depressing.

Awesome! The future looks good! Have a great day and keep fighting for good days in the future! Look at the comments below! So much hate for this beautiful world!

32 years ago and still no change to the climate.

Nobody is denying climate change but the drama around it has to stop. I remember 20 years ago when people screamed at me at high school that city X or Y was only a few years away from going under water. Of course that never happened, but it didn’t stop the predictions. They just seem to get worse and worse and you know how many of those came true? ZERO

Great

Remember when child activists disappeared from public view after they'd made their case?

OT: Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations --WOR and WLVI!

The scientists that predicted global warming did it more than 100 years ago, but the BBC makes an article about 1992’s Greta. If only we would have listened and used more solar panels in 1992. You go boss girl!😅

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="185">3:05</a> With all Elderly Respect....You Speaking to rocks this Machine is huge and needs #collective decisions with 1 made up mindset #proactive not we still have time

Sadly, if this country, my country, the US, votes Trump into office again, the planet is doomed.

"No shit."

In 1858 the uk had temperatures of 25 to 40 for a month . Was that climate change

I was 32 when she gave this speech and the answer to her question is yes! My generation, at the age of 12 in 1972, were learning about ecology and the damage humans were doing to the planet 🌎 But nobody listened in 1972 and no body will listen until the planet is uninhabitable, I guarantee it 😡🇬🇧🇺🇦🌈🙏

Why would anyone listen to someone who can't even decide on what their last name should be

Hopefully she doesnt promote the G7 and NATO as a psyop, like the Gretta!

Yeah the climate is changing. Climate is always changing. It's getting, colder it's getting warmer. The poles once had no ice what so ever but were covered with forests, once there were trees in greenland and vikings settled there and planted crops. Then the climate got colder, the crops collapsed and the vikings starved. Once the sahara was green and flush with animals and plants, now it's desert. Over the earth's history 99.9% of species died out because of enviornmental changes or catastrophies. That's not unsusual, that's the way it ever was and ever will be. Animals and humans alike need to adept or die out. There is no other choice.

They use children because adults ask too many questions.

I guess you better shut your mouth if you don’t know anything.

Still keeping up the nonsense...

Wow David Suzuki's daughter is in her 40s now? Time flies....

As hard as they try, the weather is not changing!

What does a 12-year-old child undertand about the clima, althoug the topic is controversial even among scientist.

Unfortunately the Greed of the powerful Corporate CEOS and the Ultra wealthy will keep us from making the change we needed 20-30 years ago.

What is it with you legacy institutions that are always so prone to use children when it comes to issues that adults are responsible for. It was adults who informed and taught her why can't you just put them in front of the cameras instead?

*In essence: Deserts around the World have existed since ancient times, before large human populations and Giant Industries areas. Please be advised.

CO2 is at historically low levels. We need more.

I’m sure she’s the daughter of someone very important

30 years wasted Also loving the climate skeptic bots

Climate change is already here less rainfall, more heat and when the rains come they come with torrents. I fear for the world.

❤❤❤❤

Only ielts students are here

❤

I am annoyed with such propaganda from environmentalists

It seems that the majority of the viewers of this channel are conspiracy-minded.

so after 30 years she still thinks the world is gonna end even though she already lived through most of it. My grandma was born in 1948 back in the 60's they told her the same conspiracy theories about climate change and she is still waiting for the day after tomorrow

I also ask you to make your actions

why is it that you are compared to a future version? should she not compare to you?

She should have warned us about wokeism, an even more serious problem

Why would a 12 year old be informing the world? That’s nonsensical. There’s no way a 12 year old has a comprehensive understanding on such a complex topic. Scientist in the field can’t agree on the subject. But miraculously this 12 year old has it figured out. Or maybe the same people who propagandized her are now using her as a tool to bring sympathy for their cause. They just coincidentally turn a huge profit on selling this baseless nonsense to the willing masses.

🙄💩🥱

Because 12-year old kids know so much about climate science. We should follow their advice on all things science. By the way, this video (slickly produced) is a reminder that society has been abusing children with climate hysteria for a very long time. Might explain some things.

Lots of warmings sugar, until it affects them, I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, majored in Sylviculture and left my career over disgust of how things work in Québec, they know what they're doing, how to make people bent on not caring care?

How dare you!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps if a suitably educated adult had made this talk it would have been taken more seriously.

This was NOT a new subject in 1992!! I had a chemistry set in 1973 that had a free book all about ecology and how humans were damaging our planet. Same old story, no one listens or does anything until it’s too late 🙄😡🇬🇧🇺🇦🙏🌈

United Nations Racism African Black Children Death Famine NO UNRWA Ship Food Truck Air Drops Hospitals Ambulance In 2023, an estimated 6.3 million children under five died, 2.9 million of them in the WHO African Region. This is equivalent to five children under 5 years of age dying every minute. Two thirds of these deaths can be attributed to preventable causes. A third of all these deaths are in the neonatal period. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="53">0:53</a>

Yawn

Another kid, guess Greta out aged 😂

HOW DARE YOUUUUU😂😂😂

HOW DARE YOU BREATH MY AIR!

I want my face on the twenty pound note 💷 🧔🏿‍♀️🇬🇧

Greta Thunberg beta version

Another Grumpy Great, just not ugly, amen, sayve the lord.

Hmm stock up now with fresh air and sell in the future overpriced must be a good business opportunity fresh air to the rich

Pointless video in the extreme. Please refund my license fee

Ah , the new greetta….

The BBC propaganda Yentah ensures you are drowning in information and starving of wisdom. CO2 is the gas of life❤

In my day to day life climate change is the least of my worries

Where was she 10,00 years ago? I'm in Seattle, and where I'm standing used to be a mile high glacier. 😭

[[Updated]]: 🗞️📰🗞️📰 “Been that way for 30 years.” - U.S. Justice Department on the lack of Human Rights in Oklahoma County Jail, 2020 “Makes me feel human again after this place.” - Oklahoma City Art Museum review after life in the local shelters (20+ years in the making), 2024 “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂

Another on illusionistic drugs!

A new greta🎉😂😂😂

What a silly little girl.

where is she now.? what’s she up too.? ✌🏻🇦🇺🌏🤘🏻

Please don't drill hot into my brain.

Boring lol

Doesn't matter how many times you repeat these lies it doesn't make it true, a real first world problem.to ignore , poverty, slavery, and Hunger across the developing world the very people you seek to limit access to affordable energy. How very noble of you.

" Woe to the destroyers of the Earth." (Book of Revelations, King James Bible, circa AD 98?). Woe because they didn't?

Mantle plumes of Earth

Magical thinking

No sane person cares!

Pink white and blue programing like a certain flag..and aimed at children

Nonsense

12 year olds have the intelligence of a 12 year old. You can tell most of them Minnie Mouse is real and it gets repeated parrot fashioned.

She would have had a greater impact if she had welded some oil pipelines shut.

Biggest scam on earth.. all about the money

And we didn't listen 😥If only I listened to a 12 year old.....

Waite,isn’t this happened before?

who cares

This planet had 1.6 billion people in 1924, now it is 8 billion demanding water, food, homes, roads, transport etc. Can this planet support this burden? And it is not static it is growing exponentially. While young persons with sufficient dramatic skills but with little ability lecture on the subject of climate change but themselves enjoying all the luxuries of five star life and air travel and fancy food, they have no inkling about what needs to be done to reverse climate change. Elders among climate change activists & misguided governments are on a wild goose chase of solar, wind and EVs and other madness, they completely ignore the elephant in the room, that is population bomb. Just one issue takes the breath away. How much energy, fertiliser, pesticide, soil nutrients, farm machinery, transport is required to produce food for population of 8 billion? Similarly how much energy is needled to run desalination plants in the Middle East, North Africa and other water stressed regions where population growth is highest (10 times in 70 years)? Reversal of climate change is not child’s play & needs serious thinking by people with some maturity. They should work on disincentives for wayward population growth in Middle East, Africa and Indian subcontinent. And this farce of Greta or this 12 year old should not be encouraged.

Sometimes God would like to make a new creature to study, just like you get bored of your old toys, Climate change is gods way of creating new species ;)

BS!