In what might be one of the defining moments of 2019, Greta Thunberg turned up to the United Nations General Assembly and delivered a searing rebuke against the continued inaction to climate change from world leaders (and Donald Trump).
Greta not only accidentally warmed the earth by several degrees with her four-ish minute speech, she demonstrated why she’s the face of the climate change awareness movement by ripping into the politicians present at the United Nations General Assembly for having “stolen [her] dreams and [her] childhood with [the politicians’] empty words.”
“The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line.”
Watch the entire thing here and try not to cry because no recap will do her speech justice.
Unsurprisingly, Greta’s impassioned speech has drawn out the trolls from their basements and they’ve taken it upon themselves to take her down a notch by publicly commenting on things like her appearance or condescendingly telling her to shut up and let the adults (not including Trump) do the talking.
Here’s a question to all the trolls: what the hell were you doing when you were 16?
Remember that Greta Thunberg is only 16 years old and yet she’s out there on the world stage trying her utmost best to sort out the mess all the supposed “responsible adults” in the world have caused rather than, you know, being the precocious little brat that trolls think she is.
Maybe before trolls start ragging on a teenager for trying to do some actual good, they should remember what they were like when they were 16. If anything, every troll was likely nothing more than the irritating little teenager they keep projecting onto Greta.
So to all those trolls who are going after Greta Thunberg for trying to literally save the world, go back to your basements and come back when you’ve done something positive that’s even a small fraction of what this 16-year-old has done so far.