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[CROWD CHEERING]

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- Swedish activist Greta
Thunberg signed an open letter

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with thousands of
others on Thursday

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urging European leaders
to take emergency

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action on climate change.

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The 17-year-old also
accused some people

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in power of
practically "giving up"

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on the possibility of
handing over a decent future

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to coming generations.

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She said authorities would only
start a meaningful response

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to climate change once they
accepted they had to transform

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the whole economic system.

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GRETA THUNBERG: We need
to see it as, above all,

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an existential crisis.

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And as long as it's not
being treated as a crisis,

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we can have as many
of these climate

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change negotiations and talks,
conferences as possible.

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It won't change a thing.

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- The letter was made
public on Thursday,

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a day before a European
Council summit where

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EU countries will try to reach a
deal on the bloc's next budget.

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Demands in the letter
include an immediate halt

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to investment in fossil fuel
exploration and extraction.

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It also called for binding
annual "carbon budgets"

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to limit how much greenhouse
gas countries can emit.

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And it wants leaders to develop
climate policies designed

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to protect workers and
reduce economic, racial,

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and gender inequalities.

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