Contemporary · North America · Politics

2019

Greta at the UN

September 23, 2019

A sixteen-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg, who had crossed the Atlantic by sailboat, told a roomful of world leaders, "How dare you." Her voice cracked. The clip looped for weeks. Climate striking schoolchildren had a face, and the adults charged with the future had a public scolding they could not unhear.