Diary of a Radio Junkie: 1403 Days of Waking Up to the News
9/24/19
casein, gouache, watercolor, graphite on paper
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Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old climate activist tesll UN Climate Action Summit in NYC "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" She went on to cite statistics about the future of the planet. UK Supreme Court rules Johnson's parliament suspension illegal.
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