Epic line of the decade

[Quixote1818]

"We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

Greta Thunberg

[ffr]

1. Our youth is amazingly bright and gifted in speech.

I'm with her.

[Quixote1818]

2. She had me in tears. nt

[Funtatlaguy]

10. "Our"...she had an accent. Few Americans speak that well either.

She used way too many big words to be an American student.

[dalton99a]

3. Brilliant.

[Moostache]

4. Greta, you are brave beyond your years...you are also doomed.

Your entire generation will be the first to live out the prime of life on a planet becoming inhospitable to life as we know it.

Your generation is going to be witness to the throes of the ongoing mass extinction - already ravishing birds, insects, fish, land mammals and basically the entire planet soon.

Your generation is about to inherit a failed economic model (with wealth disparity greater than any time in human history and privation
for BILLIONS and famines and death as a result).

In the end, you are going to end up with nothing - no viable economic model, no way of stopping the depression that will crush BILLIONS and no way to reverse the damage wrought by those who currently luxuriate and tut-tut you and your kind while they literally fiddle as the world burns.

I admire your start and your courage to speak out in the face of right wing bullies and assholes....but you and your generation need to throw yourselves into the gears of the machine now - literally break the wheel or be run over by it; or you will fight each other for the scraps later. Either way, we older generations have seriously fucked you all and there is no way to stop it now.

I am sorry. I failed to make enough of a difference and for that I deserve your scorn.

[dchill]

8. +1

[dawg day]

5. She was incandescent in her rage

She shamed them.
I wish I could live long enough to see her in 30 years!

[rusty quoin]

6. That Fox News guest called her mentally ill, while he and Fox viewers are essentially suicidal.

[EveHammond13]

7. At long last, have you no decency?

[oasis]

9. So true.