In an article by The American Conservative, sixteen-year-old, Greta Thunberg shared her opinion on climate change. Free speech is a right to Americans but sometimes free speech isn't everything it's made to be. It seems like people don't have an issue with free speech until it interferes with their personal opinions and beliefs. In this particular case, Thunberg is only sixteen years of age and many who agree with Thunberg's beliefs enjoy seeing her exercising her free speech. However, if Thunberg's beliefs differed, the same people who previously had no issue in her free speech, may have a problem with it and may even go as far as to say her opinion has no weight because she is too young to have an opinion on such a controversial issue. It seems free speech is acceptable to people when it's convenient for them. Thunberg made a call for change and even went as far as announcing her and fifteen other young peoples' move to sue the countries of Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey, in a bid to pressure them into considerable action on preventing climate change.
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