The young have been obscenely burdened with the responsibility to be a voice of moral authority for their parents and their grandparents. People are looking to a young generation to make the decisions that previous generations have been incapable of making. It���s another form of denialism.

I love Greta Thunberg, I think she���s fucking awesome. I���m so proud of all the kids who are out there fighting the good fight. But the media passing it over to a 7-year-old or a 15-year-old, and using them as the frontline that Trump can then tweet his rants at? It���s diseased. We have to start to reckon with the disease that���s curled around every aspect of our lives in this late stage of capitalism. If we���re not doing that on a daily basis, we���re just lying to ourselves.

You ask, ���What can we do?��� You can talk to everyone you know about this on a constant basis and try to create consensus about it. You can create groups of people and think tanks to try to counter the billionaire-subsidized think tanks that are forming our current trajectory as a species. If there���s anything you can do, it���s to get profoundly involved. Like, quit your fucking job and do something useful. Hold yourself accountable. It���s painful, I can say that from experience. You���re going to have to sit with your own hypocrisy. And then you have to get real comfortable with people telling you that you���re a killjoy.

Anohni, interviewed