Teen activist Greta Thunberg took her call for bold action to tackle climate change to a United Nations summit in Spain, warning world leaders that a growing youth-led protest movement meant they could no longer hide.
Accorded rock-star status by young environmental activists, the 16-year-old had crossed the Atlantic by boat to drop in on the climate talks in Madrid then join one of the Friday afternoon marches she has inspired around the world.
"The current world leaders are betraying us and we will not let that happen anymore," Thunberg said on Friday in a brief speech to the protesters, some of whom had chanted "We Love You Greta."
"Change is coming whether you like it or not because we have no other choice," she said.
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Now that the consequences of global warming are apparent in the sky over Sydney, I wonder if Scott Morrison has asked himself: “am I doing everything possible to prevent this from happening?” In the midst of disaster threatening life, this is what we should expect from the leader of our country
When is she sailing for China who is growing their emissions by about the same amount as the west is cutting ours? China, who produces more CO2 than Europe and the US combined, China who is leading the world in the expansion of coal fired power production.
China only produce so much because the rest of the world keep buying their products! Which they produce very efficiently! You wantChina to reduce emissions then stop buying stuff from them that creates emissions. Find another way.
Around 30% of the Chinese population burns solid fuel for cooking and heating. Across the world, around 3 billion people burn solid fuel for cooking and heating.
The pollution from cooking on open fires is said to cause up to 3 million premature deaths each year, including over 600,000 in China annually.
Ok, another way is to require them to observe the same environmental practices we have in the West, and to lower power prices here and encourage our industries to produce locally.
I seriously doubt that cooking solid fuel on open fires comes anywhere near the emissions created by the production of steel (China does a lot of that for the cars etc we drive), the production of textiles for fast fashion (China does a lot of that too) and the production of tech gadgets.