If kids—hell, if anyone is looking for an example of courage and heroism today, you could do far worse than Greta Thunberg. Her speech yesterday at the U.N. General Assembly perfectly captured the rage and betrayal that our youngest generations are feeling about the world that’s being left to them. If it resonated with you, like it did with me, there’s a good chance you’re feeling that rage and betrayal too.
I don’t update this blog as often as I should. I want to change that, but if I’m being honest, I’ve wanted to change that for a while now. I have to assume that in spite of my best intentions, this post, much like my previous two, will likely stay at the top of my website for months, if not years to come. So, if that’s the case, the post might as well be Thunberg’s speech. You should read it if you haven’t (or even better watch it ). If you’ve already read it and it’s been a while, it probably wouldn’t hurt
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!