Summary

In "Can You Hear Me?" on April 23, 2019, Thunberg addresses the Houses of Parliament in London. Thunberg opened by saying she was speaking on behalf of future generations (55). She told her dissenters that she and her classmates would return to school as soon as international powers began paying attention to science. Thunberg then projected herself and her family into the future, imagining the life that might be ahead of her. This future, however, had been compromised by the ignorance and inactivity of generations before her. The notion of dreaming big and doing whatever you want to do, Thunberg said, had only led to destructive global attitudes and habits, a profound unconcern for the planet.

She asked her audience if they could hear her, as no one seemed to have been listening to...