Summary

In "You Can't Simply Make Up Your Own Facts," on July 23, 2019, Thunberg addressed the French National Assembly in Paris. Thunberg began by addressing the accusation that she and her classmates are alarmists, arguing that there is, in fact, a need for alarm. She presented a series of statistics as laid out in the IPCC report, calling particular attention to the carbon budget, how much carbon the globe has left to emit. In just under nine years from the date of the speech, the budget would be gone. She suggested the reason leaders were not discussing these numbers was because they were too immature, leaving the solutions to the next generation. While some refer to Thunberg's words as opinions, she insisted they were based in scientific facts, those which...