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She continued, voice shaking:

People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about are money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you? For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you look away?

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Thunberg is not here to be palatable. She is not here to be adorable GIF-fodder, or to reassure apathetic elites that the future is in good hands. She is here to be taken seriously. The stakes are too high for her not to be. Her activism isn’t cute—it’s terrifying.