Click Here to watch Greta Thunberg’s 2018 Ted Talk:
The disarming case to act right now on climate change.
Climate change experts are currently expounding climate predictions through the year 2050. What happens next? What if we fail? Because let’s be honest, humanity does not have the best track record when it comes to, well, anything. Except making trash, we really are the best at that. But seriously, what if? They predict my generation will live to be 100. In 2050 I will be 54. A life only half lived. So, then what? This is why teenagers are terrified. Shooting, Crying, Laughing, Dying. The world you worked so hard for.
You might as well laugh as cry.
Children hide under desks teachers shut doors and I open the window. It’s the end of the world. Again. And the only ‘why’ I can find is that our existence is so impossible we’ve decided to destroy it ourselves. It’s the end of the math. The snake eats its own tail Odysseus writes his own fate if nothing destroys you you must destroy yourself. Logic. Humanity is the biggest logical fallacy there is. Yet here we are.
In our electric cars and faux leather jackets bumper stickers and shopping carts duvet covers and tv commercials malpractice lawsuits and methadone. It’s the end of the world. Again. I swing my feet out over the ledge. Behind me people yell and I laugh because why not take the shortcut?