{"id":579097,"date":"2026-08-01T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579097\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:38:10","slug":"i-cant-pretend-to-be-hopeful-greta-thunberg-delivers-message-of-peace-at-all-together-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579097\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I can\u2019t pretend to be hopeful\u2019: Greta Thunberg delivers \u2018message of peace\u2019 at All Together Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG has delivered a \u201cmessage of peace\u201d at the All Together Now festival, but warned that she \u201ccannot pretend to be hopeful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In its seventh year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/all-together-now-glen-hansard-tribute-7118341-Jul2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All Together Now festival<\/a>\u00a0at Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford sees over 60 acts take to the stage over four nights.<\/p>\n<p>English rock band Pulp, best known for their 1995 hit Common People, headlined last night, with Disclosure performing a DJ set on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kneecap meanwhile are the headline act tonight.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, several people delivered \u201cmessages of peace\u201d from the Temporary Bandstand, including\u00a0Irish-Palestinian singer R\u00f3is\u00edn El Cherif.<\/p>\n<p>Thunberg also delivered a message of peace and told the audience she is \u201cheartbroken at the state of the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPersonally, I hate giving inspirational speeches,\u201d said Thunberg.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cMaybe because I\u2019m autistic, I cannot pretend to be hopeful, to feel hope in this world, when I\u2019m too heartbroken about the state of the world, everything is falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheJournalVideo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Journal<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to wildfires raging across Europe, Thunberg remarked that the \u201cworld is literally on fire\u201d and that \u201cwe are systematically destroying the life-supporting systems that our civilization is built upon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that there are \u201cno longer words in any language to describe the slaughtering of our fellow humans, of other species of the biosphere we depend on to survive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd there are no words to describe the war criminals who are causing this, and we know who these people are,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am all about peace and love, trust me.\n<\/p>\n<p>But we are beyond that point now. We can no longer ask nicely to the people in charge to do what should be fucking common sense.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Thunberg said she is \u201cunable to give hopeful speeches\u201d because \u201cpeople use hope as an alibi not to do anything\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHope is not something someone can give to you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHope is something you have to create, and I cannot give you hope. Hope is something you have to do yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She called on those in the audience to \u201cget out of our comfort zones, take action, organise, and demand action\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I cannot give you a hopeful speech,\u201d said Thunberg, \u201cbecause I do not feel hopeful about the state of the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think we have to be adult enough to face the reality, to stare blankly into the depths of despair and realise no one is going to fix this for us.<\/p>\n<p>There is no intergovernmental actor that magically will fix all of our problems. It falls on us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no one we can call for. We have to take that responsibility. We have to go out on the streets and demand that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG has delivered a \u201cmessage of peace\u201d at the All Together Now festival, but warned that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99375,244155,61,60,244156,43,6513],"class_list":["post-579097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-together-now","tag-curraghmore-estate","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-message-of-peace","tag-news","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}