{"id":4595,"date":"2022-05-09T10:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=4595"},"modified":"2022-05-11T19:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:28:59","slug":"the-last-speech-i-gave-before-i-became-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/the-last-speech-i-gave-before-i-became-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"The last speech I gave before I became a criminal<\/span>Carsten Jensen<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you think you can live the way you have always lived, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think your kids will have a life like yours, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think politicians have a bigger horizon than the next election, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that the problems you don\u2019t solve today will solve themselves tomorrow, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think there\u2019s someone who will save the world for you, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think there\u2019s still plenty of time, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you believe that the world doesn\u2019t need to be saved, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that the thawing tundra in Siberia won\u2019t affect you, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that the billions living in the global south can live daily with temperatures of fifty degrees heat, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think they are not coming here, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that the melting ice sheets will do nothing worse than give you warm summer seas to swim in, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that your nation is its very own planet, and doesn\u2019t share its fate with others, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think the Earth is dumb and passive, and doesn\u2019t speak to you daily, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think nature doesn\u2019t have a language and that you will never have to learn it, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you believe that humanity has subdued the natural world and that it isn\u2019t far stronger than us, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think you are the king of the world when you look in the mirror, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that the disappearance of insects won\u2019t turn empires to rubble, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think humans can\u2019t live like rats, you’re wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think the planet’s patience is infinite because it has endured the presence of your species for a few hundred thousand years, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think the billions of wild animals tortured by droughts and floods and flames don\u2019t have a message for you, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that breeding and slaughtering imprisoned animals to feed your appetite for meat isn\u2019t a moral issue, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think you can hide from the future, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that people in power aren\u2019t capable of blindly leading you into doom, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that armed border guards and machine guns and refugee processing centers in Rwanda can protect you from rising seas and rising temperatures, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think the society you live in isn\u2019t breaking nature’s most fundamental laws, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that today\u2019s climate policy failures won\u2019t bring about the disasters of tomorrow, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you believe that this generation\u2019s actions won\u2019t have an impact on life on the planet for thousands of years to come, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think that you could never become a boat refugee, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

If you think it’s illegal to block a bridge and briefly stop the choking traffic to call attention to the planetary crisis, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

We stand here because we love all life on earth, and that\u2019s why we will stand here again and again.<\/p>\n

And if you think you can stop us, you are wrong.<\/p>\n

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Carsten Jensen<\/strong> is one of Denmark’s most celebrated literary voices, and the prize-winning author of many books, including I Have Seen the World Begin<\/i>,\u00a0The First\u00a0 Stone\u00a0<\/i>and We, The Drowned.<\/i><\/p>\n

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