Status Updates From Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

It's truly terrible. But this new generation of responsible young people will sort it out, his mother says. Thank God for the young people. I trust them.

Yeah, that's it. Give us the responsibility for everything you've all messed up but don't give us any power with which to change anything, his sister says.

She is a person on a pavement in a city in a country on a planet, seen from above by so many satellites that aren't there so we can see how fine and beautiful our planet is from space but so the people who control the satellites can zoom in on people for all sorts of reasons that are nothing to do with what almost everybody and everything on the planet actually needs.