Greta vs the establishment

How easy was that small child  
From modesty a target to deride  
She was that bulls eye  
The snipers aimed their cruel satire  

She spoke of how the young will cope  
The clock is ticking will it float  
And the stinking infrastructure so remote  
The apathy the rich promote  
 
Would they don the life jacket and so sail  
2000 miles not take a plane  
Just employ vain jealousy and bile  
To undermine with words facile  
 
Protest too much from points of privilege  
The sycophants who will not budge  
All they see is that mirage  
She speaks for those not yet conceived  
 
Now Greta's church they have no vote  
But they would rather gander hope  
Protest and strike and find a growing voice  
Then barter youth and march in consort  
 
 Lead to where the ice caps melt  
To love the planet not yourself  
And see extinctions bones so bleached  
The plastic tides that choked the seas  
 
Burn your skin in the forest fire  
Starve the brain in deoxyegenated air  
To raise our minds from our devices  
 Look at issues just not the price  
 
The costs of the impending doom  
A champion so young, a new broom  
The advocate to poke where others fail  
Old initiatives collapsed and now all derailed  
 
Just  a few degrees between us and hell  
The smoking footprint forever swell    
And apathy spread like a rotten apple
Just a fools paradise remains shackled  
 
The homemade banners painted red  
 Homework the parents never had  
That followed heroine, a SHE that lead  
The northern light of tomorrows spearhead