Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered an emotionally charged speech on climate change at the United Nations on Monday, drawing wide-eyed responses from political pundits throughout the day.
“This speech by far-left activist Greta Thunberg is absolute madness,” said political reporter Ryan Saavedra.
Thunberg, 16, declared in her speech that “people are dying,” and appearing to be on the verge of tears while she slammed members of the U.N. for not doing enough. “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she proclaimed to a crowd that included leaders from all over the world. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing, we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
The speech quickly caught the attention of her supporters as well as detractors, who were concerned about the what they deemed the melodramatic nature of her speech. “Am I a bad person for thinking children shouldn’t be used as political props like Greta Thunberg?” tweeted Ian Miles Cheong of Human Events.
[Opinion: This Greta Thunberg thing is child abuse]
This speech by far-left activist Greta Thunberg is absolute madness pic.twitter.com/RFyIPZlajQ
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 23, 2019
“The idea that they can use a kid as a political shield, give her immense coverage, and then no [one] is allowed to talk about the substance of her arguments because she is a kid … is just silly,” said David Harsanyi of The Federalist.
The idea that they can use a kid as a political shield, give her immense coverage, and then no is allowed to talk about the substance of her arguments because she is a kid … is just silly.
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) September 23, 2019
Am I a bad person for thinking children shouldn’t be used as political props like Greta Thunberg? pic.twitter.com/kGEErp35Jn
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 23, 2019
16 year old nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize-
Says unless the world does exactly what she tells us to, climate change will wipe out our entire species.
Seems reasonable. https://t.co/e9o3NIOtQb
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) September 23, 2019
Children of the Corn level scary here. They’re going to move quickly to violence to overthrow democratic governments. https://t.co/6Hia5xcC6z
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) September 23, 2019
Guys, “her life was ruined because she hung out with Obama and went on the Tonight Show” is not a convincing argument.
— neontaster (@neontaster) September 23, 2019
We need to have a national conversation about the rising problem of arrogant teenage Swedes.
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) September 23, 2019
