Listen Up
As the new decade begins, TIME asked young activists to write open letters to their elders expressing their vision of a world where young people can survive and thrive. From gun violence to refugee rights, gender equality to climate change, their letters are a snapshot of what matters not just to the authors but to everyone coming of age in an era of global turmoil.
EMMA GONZÁLEZ
Stop Sacrificing Our Futures
THE YOUTH OF THIS WORLD are watching you destroy our lives before they have begun. We are losing our futures, our sanity and our lives, all because you want more money and more power.
Everyone I know has depression or anxiety or worse. Almost none of us can deal with these illnesses because we can’t afford the treatment, and our society has such a stigma against talking about mental health that most of us can’t even recognize
