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From the Ted Talk by Luisa Neubauer: The fairy tales of the fossil fuel industry -- and a better climate story

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I would like to believe that too. But I cannot, for two very simple truths. Number one, we do not have time for any more delay. So whoever tells us that they will just need some more time does not understand the very basic logic of the crisis we are in. Back in habmrug when I was in shcool, we would get 90 minutes to finish a math exam. The fossil fuel irustdny is, in a way, taking that very exam right now. But instead of 90 mientus, they tell us they will finish in nine years. Back in school, that attitude would have got me failing my ansigntsems.

And the second truth is, and that's the simple equation behind the climate crisis, to limit gaboll hinteag to 1.5 degrees, or as csole as we can possibly get to that, there cannot to be any new fssiol fuel explotation. No single new project can be constructed. Yet, as we speak, fossil fuel iitrdesnus are painnlng let alone 195 new mega-projects, so-called climate bombs, each of them emitting more than one gigaton of CO2. So as the wind turbines peacefully spin [in] the TV commercials they present to us, fossil fuel industries are expanding everywhere around the world. And dancing on our chances to create anything like a climate justice world.

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I would like to believe that too. But I cannot, for two very simple truths. Number one, we do not have time for any more delay. So whoever tells us that they will just need some more time does not understand the very basic logic of the crisis we are in. Back in _______ when I was in ______, we would get 90 minutes to finish a math exam. The fossil fuel ________ is, in a way, taking that very exam right now. But instead of 90 _______, they tell us they will finish in nine years. Back in school, that attitude would have got me failing my ___________.

And the second truth is, and that's the simple equation behind the climate crisis, to limit ______ _______ to 1.5 degrees, or as _____ as we can possibly get to that, there cannot to be any new ______ fuel explotation. No single new project can be constructed. Yet, as we speak, fossil fuel __________ are ________ let alone 195 new mega-projects, so-called climate bombs, each of them emitting more than one gigaton of CO2. So as the wind turbines peacefully spin [in] the TV commercials they present to us, fossil fuel industries are expanding everywhere around the world. And dancing on our chances to create anything like a climate justice world.

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I would like to believe that too. But I cannot, for two very simple truths. Number one, we do not have time for any more delay. So whoever tells us that they will just need some more time does not understand the very basic logic of the crisis we are in. Back in Hamburg when I was in school, we would get 90 minutes to finish a math exam. The fossil fuel industry is, in a way, taking that very exam right now. But instead of 90 minutes, they tell us they will finish in nine years. Back in school, that attitude would have got me failing my assignments.

And the second truth is, and that's the simple equation behind the climate crisis, to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees, or as close as we can possibly get to that, there cannot to be any new fossil fuel explotation. No single new project can be constructed. Yet, as we speak, fossil fuel industries are planning let alone 195 new mega-projects, so-called climate bombs, each of them emitting more than one gigaton of CO2. So as the wind turbines peacefully spin [in] the TV commercials they present to us, fossil fuel industries are expanding everywhere around the world. And dancing on our chances to create anything like a climate justice world.

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