Greta Thunberg on climate change: "I want you to panic"

Adults keep saying, "We owe it to the young people to give them hope."  But I don't want your hope.  I don't want you to be hopeful.  I want you to panic.  I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.  And then I want you to act.  I want you to act as you would in a crisis.  I want you to act as if the house was on fire, because it is.

~ Greta Thunberg, "'I want you to panic': 16-year old issues climate warning at Davos," 2:14 mark, January 25, 2019, World Economic Forum