“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,” said Greta Thunberg
Photo: picture alliance/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Greta Thunberg just gave the best speech of her very young life at today’s U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York.
What Thunberg also deploys effectively is shame, which she unleashed this morning on the dignitaries gathered in front of her. Even as their invited guest, she refused to let world leaders, who are responsible for much of the international community’s inaction on climate change over the past several decades, off the hook. The resulting raw emotion, despair, and unvarnished anger visible in her face and audible in her voice made her words more powerful than they have ever been.
When it was her turn to speak to the crowd, which included representatives of over 110 U.N. member states, Thunberg used the refrain “how dare you” to immediately turn the attention on her back onto the powerful people in the crowd. “This is all wrong,” she began. “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.
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