I just read the complete text of Greta Thunberg's speech at the Houses of Parliament in front of British MP's, and I must say I am deeply impressed. that speech was a rhetoric masterpiece!

I especially love the rhetoric trick of asking twice if her microphone is ok and if everyone can hear her and then end her speech with "I hope my microphone was on. I hope you could all hear me". that is simply brilliant!

the whole speech can be found here:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time" rel="nofollow - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/greta-thunberg-full-speech-to-mps-you-did-not-act-in-time

The rhetorics are at least good indeed. Too good for a 16yo girl who spends her time sitting on the pavement or marching through city streets when she ought to be at school, maybe musing on manipulated climate statistics which she sees passing by on her smartphone, methinks. No matter if that microphone thing was a matter of brilliance or just perception.

It is just the political agenda behind it, exploiting the almost lovable lassie-know-it-all, that makes me cringe. But agreed, she can present it with much more drama than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Klaver" rel="nofollow - Klaver Jasser , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Jetten" rel="nofollow - Rob Jets and their likes in the political arena outside the borders of my little country.

By the way, maybe it's time for Earth on Fire to adapt that 1971 epic to a more actual version .