The tiny, thirteen-year-old teenager, Greta Thunberg, has rightly been named Time's 2019 'Person of the Year'. Standing taller than the typical world-promising politician by scolding her insensitive elders for destroying Mother Nature's most habitable planet, the Swedish high-schooler hit the world like a hurricane. Armed with sharp words, she mobilised millions of other high-schoolers across the world to diffuse 'the buck stops here' environmental message, then penetrated the formidable defences of even the most secured world leaders to rattle policy-making. What is most remarkable, and what really sets her apart, is how her message is so much at odds with even the materialistic expectations of her generation. We must pause for a while to reappraise that generation. Being born in the 21st century means coming alive when social media has already ripped apart the very socio-cultural fabric, typified in the family and dotted with such landmarks as book-bred education, a 9-5 increasingly white-collar job routine, and more predictable, disciplined, and rote behaviour than humans ever had outside the imperial framework.