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Greta Thunberg, And Those Parkland Florida kids, Speak For Our Future
Kids began Never Again, then March for our lives, and Strike for Climate, now they may get all of us to march for Life itself
Swedish teen Greta Thunberg, who began the Friday school strikes that would avalanche into a worldwide movement to address the climate crisis, recently remarked that it was the Parkland Florida shooting survivor students that inspired her.
Greta took off every Friday afternoon and took up her hand made sign. Others soon followed. School walk-outs seem charming and quaint to some. But they are serious and influential.
We won’t all walk a mile in their world
The young among us are not so jaded. The young among us are not so cynical. The young among us are not so tired. When you have watched the whole world burn out for decades, you begin to feel the burn out, too.
I was already quite inspired by the girl. It is inspiring enough that she felt that just one person could make a difference. It is inspiring that she overcame depression and anxiety — or treated it to be more accurate — by taking such action. It is inspiring that she doesn’t let her self-acknowledgment of being on the Autism spectrum stop her.