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Greta Thunberg (15 years old) is My New Hero

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Greta Thunberg attended the Jan 2019 World Economic Forum at Davos and, in front of the world's most influential and powerful people, she said,  "Now is the time to speak clearly. Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that Homo Sapiens has ever faced.   "The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it.  We have to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.  And either we do that or we don't.   "You say nothing in life is black or white but that is a lie; a very dangerous lie.  Either we prevent 1.5 degrees of warming or we don't.  Either we avoid setting off that irreversible chain reaction beyond human control or we don't.  Either we choose to go on as a civilisation or we don't.  That is as black and white as it gets.   "We must change almost everything in our current societies.  The bigger your carbon footprint is, the bigger your moral duty.  The bigger your platform,