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The world is slowly waking up. After decades of disinformation lulled us into a dream-filled sleepwalk through life, we finally say, “no more.” As young people lead the charge, shaking us all from our stupor and rightfully demanding a livable future, I will rise with them. I say, “no more.”
For too long, the powerful and wealthy have hidden the truth from the world about the then impending climate crisis that is now gripping us all. Those who had the ability to speak up, to use their power responsibly for the good of people, instead chose to be silent, ignorant, or shamelessly deceitful. What a world we live in; that the incentives and mechanisms that turn the gears of society produce such greed and shortsightedness as to condemn the powerless, the poor, the oppressed, the young, and generations yet unborn to a future plagued by strife, and a present rife with anxiety.
We are ready to demonstrate to the profit-seeking, impotent so-called leaders of our world that perhaps the most powerful renewable energy of all is not wind, water, or solar, but the indomitable and furious flames of our collective human spirit.
I feel that anxiety as I anticipate a potential future where suffering and struggle are…
