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Greta Thunberg at #UNGA: "This is all wrong. I shouldnt be up here. I should be in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words."
Via ABC
Link to tweet
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Magoo48
(4,698 posts)cilla4progress
(24,718 posts)indignation!!!!!
Celerity
(43,158 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)H2O Man
(73,513 posts)Powerful.
packman
(16,296 posts)From the mouths of babes shall the truth be told and you shall gain strength. She is uncorrupted by the greed which drives most men and governments.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)LonePirate
(13,409 posts)Canoe52
(2,948 posts)turbinetree
(24,685 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)madashelltoo
(1,694 posts)Berated by a child!
calimary
(81,139 posts)This young one here certainly has done so.
If I were her age, Id be just as angry, for exactly the same reason.
democrank
(11,088 posts)She puts many adult leaders to shame.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,909 posts)TeamPooka
(24,210 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)whathehell
(29,037 posts)Lock him up.
(6,921 posts)... PRESSURE the Dem's Cabinet to adopt Jay Inslee's plan.
Start there, it's urgent.
ancianita
(35,954 posts)To shove it in everyone's faces that they should do their jobs. so she wouldn't have to take up years of hers and others' childhoods to make them do their jobs...
THIS is the downright pitiful pass we have come to in facing our fossil fuel wealth addiction.
Magoo48
(4,698 posts)After Greta sets the bar, the worlds politicians, belching horseshit and gunsmoke, will stand unclothed before the truth. Lies will bleed through their shirts like a cheep pen, their stock speeches will leak like oil from so many past-their-prime junkers in a destruction derby.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)List left
(595 posts)The world should be shamed and moved to action by Greta's passionate and painfully astute assessment of the state of human greed. Our dissociation with reality, and the consequences of our actions and non-action seem to be leading us on an inexorable path of no return!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)How many of us drive a big, gas guzzing SUV?
How many of us commute in carbon-spewing traffic for an hour to go to a job to pay for an over-sized house requiring massive heating and air conditioning?
How many of us have retirement stocks still invested in the fossil fuel industry?
paleotn
(17,884 posts)llmart
(15,534 posts)Lock him up.
(6,921 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Giving it largely to a bunch of old fart men right between the eyes!
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)dalton99a
(81,406 posts)Beartracks
(12,801 posts)=======
jimlup
(7,968 posts)that is the only thing I need to share with my sister Greta from my perch of 61 years.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)llmart
(15,534 posts)Let's take that meme back from the knuckle draggers.
paleotn
(17,884 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,702 posts)I'm truly sorry for most of the world selling out to ignore environmental protection and climate for pure greed. Know that some of us fought for it and will continue fighting. Thank you Greta.
coti
(4,612 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,959 posts)Thank you posting this!
TommyCelt
(838 posts)...the right wing have accused her of being a hired actress, accused her parents of child abuse, and - because she is a white girl with braids - said she was part of a leftist-Nazi propaganda campaign (thanks to Dinesh Souza for the latter)
This is what happens when bullies get spanked by a child.
panader0
(25,816 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)such honest raw speaking truth to power. Bravo Greta Thunberg!
PatrickforO
(14,561 posts)the future to hold trials of those who are purposely destroying the earth in the name of shareholder profits. In the waking dream, they come, make arrests and hold televised trials which are viewed by all people - trials where the actual truth is told, and where the nightmare scenarios of today bear out in the testimony of future children.
Thunberg's testimony was moving because it is a sort of waking dream come true.
We'd better get our shit together and move aggressively around some kind of green new deal. To continue to inhabit this planet we've got to get rid of the lust for wealth and power, and begin planning forward as a species. It is time.
If we don't, we'll go extinct. I DON'T want my grandkids to live in a world like this, and it is shameful that this is allowed to exist now and that other peoples' grandchildren are growing up in places like this:
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)when I first heard that clip last night.
I sobbed out loud as she spoke.
A real-life Super Hero.