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The climate activist Greta Thunberg has accused politics and business of persistent ignorance and empty talk about the fight against the climate and environmental crisis.

The crisis can no longer be solved within the current system, the time of small steps is long gone, said the 18-year-old Swede in a video address at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), of which she published a recording on Twitter on Monday evening.

"The longer we evade this unpleasant truth and the longer we pretend we can solve the climate and environmental emergency without treating it as an emergency, the more valuable time we will lose," said Thunberg.

"And we don't have that time."

You understand that things cannot change overnight.

“But you've had more than three decades of blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla as a" now.

How many more do you need? "

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The young Swede further criticized the fact that only vague climate targets were set for the distant future instead of actually and immediately acting in the crisis.

"It's like waking up in the middle of the night and seeing that your house is on fire and then deciding to wait ten, 20, 30 years before calling the fire department."

Two years ago, Thunberg gave a widely acclaimed speech in Davos

What is needed now, among other things, are binding annual CO2 budgets.

Due to the corona pandemic, the traditional WEF annual meeting will take place online for the first time and not in Davos, Switzerland.

Until Friday, representatives from politics, business and society will be discussing current challenges such as the pandemic and climate change in online rounds.

Thunberg gave one of her first speeches at the forum in Davos two years ago, which had received international attention.

Even then, she used the picture of the burning house to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis.

"I want you to act as if your house is on fire because it does," she said in 2019.

“I want you to panic, to feel the fear I feel every day.

And then I want you to act. "