Odd arguments from Bonnie Frye Hemphill: We should believe in a gigantic hoax because cool, lithe, young people who rally with giant puppets believe

Wonk Room » Bonnie Frye Hemphill At Power Shift 2011: We Have The Awesome

We’re also proud to define ourselves as what we’re not: we are cooler than the fossil forces of the past. They rail on chalkboards; we rally with giant puppets in the streets. They are talking heads for septuagenarians; we are sneaking into shareholder meetings and embarrassing giant fossil fuel companies. They are snarking about crosshairs on Facebook from defensive compounds in Wasilla. We are 10,000 lithe young people fighting for our future while a crotchety old pitbull like Tom Donohue screams to get off of his front yard at the US Chamber of Commerce. We are in the West Wing interrupting the President of the United States of America to remind him that energy shouldn’t kill.
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Our generation is staking its identity as the people responsible enough to face climate science for what it means, and political corruption for what it is....This is a movement of the young and young at heart – if you are awesome, you are in.