Something that I’ve noticed about youth climate activism is that youth activists are constantly compared to older generations. However, it’s about how they are compared that really intrigues (and annoys) me. Younger generations of activists are, generally, not presented as following in the footsteps of older activists, nor are they shown to be working with older activists at all. Most of the time, I see these young people presented as our “last hope,” completely separate from older generations. Xiye Bastida sums it up well in “Calling In” when she says that “many people are now giving all the credit to young people when looking for key players in the climate movement. But as youth, we know that we didn’t start the movement at all.” The journal Nature does this exact thing when an article from 2019 says that “because young climate protestors don’t represent someone else’s agenda, their message is strikingly direct and unvarnished.” The article then goes on to talk, in part, about...