„This target is not sufficient to protect the future for children growing up today. If the EU is to make its fair contribution to stay within the carbon budget for the 2C limit then it needs a minimum of 80 percent reduction by 2030, and that includes aviation and shipping… There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.“

— Greta Thunberg

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„We have been told that the EU intends to improve its emission reduction targets. In the new target, the EU is proposing to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 45 percent below 1990’s level by 2030. Some people say that is good or that is ambitious. But this new target is still not enough to keep global warming below 1.5 °C. This target is not sufficient to protect the future for children growing up today. If the EU is to make its fair contribution to staying within the carbon budget for the 2 °C limit, then it means a minimum of 80 percent reduction by 2030 and that includes aviation and shipping. So it is around twice as ambitious as the current proposal.“
— Greta Thunberg
„All children, except one, grow up.“
— J. M. Barrie
„The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.“
— Margaret Mead
„Don't try to make me grow up before my time…“
— Louisa May Alcott
„In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world.“
— Margaret Mead