I mean, people aren't continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don't want to. We aren't destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, 'What should I do?' And I say: 'Act. Do something.' Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models - we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

I'm on the autism spectrum. I don't usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

When I'm really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

Sometimes it's Tune-berg, sometimes Thunn-berg. I mean, I think it's funny that everyone pronounces it differently. So, that is just - I don't mind anyone pronouncing it wrong. There's no wrong way to pronounce it. Everyone pronounces it in their own way.

Some people can just let things go, but I can't, especially if there's something that worries me or makes me sad.

I have always been that girl in the back who doesn't say anything.

Giving up cannot be an option.

I want the politicians to prioritise the climate question, focus on the climate and treat it like a crisis.

I don't use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

For way too long the politicians and people in power have got away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and ecological crisis.

I like school and I like learning.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

We can't just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don't want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

I have Asperger's, I'm on the autism spectrum, so I don't really care about social codes. It makes you think differently.

Solving the climate crisis is the greatest and most complex challenge that homo sapiens have ever faced. The main solution, however, is so simple that even a small child can understand it. We have to stop our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

By stopping flying, you don't only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don't give a damn about my future, I won't either.

Of course, individual change doesn't make much difference in a holistic picture... but we need both systemic change and individual change.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.