"We need to change the whole capitalist system"
— Greta Thunberg

January 1, 1970

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OratorsWomen activistsPeople from StockholmClimate change activistsEnvironmentalists from Sweden
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Samira Ahmed may have been thinking of a Thunberg quote from section 4.1 which did indict "capitalist consumerism", though it also criticized other "current political ideologies": "Leaving capitalist consumerism and market economics as the dominant stewards of the only known civilization in the universe will most likely seem, in retrospect, to have been a terrible idea. But let us keep in mind that when it comes to sustainability, all previous systems have failed too. Just like all current polit