This 15-Year-Old Blasted World Leaders At UN Climate Summit, Saying 'You Are Not Mature Enough'
Greta Thunberg is just 15 years old, but the Swedish student has been garnering international notoriety. She¡¯s gone viral not just for her strong stance on climate change, but also her biting criticism of global policymakers dithering on the issue.
Greta Thunberg is just 15 years old, but the Swedish student has been garnering international notoriety.
She's gone viral not just for her strong stance on climate change, but also her biting criticism of policymakers across the world dithering on the issue.
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"You are not mature enough to tell it like is," she said at a UN climate summit in Poland that ended Sunday. "Even that burden you leave to us children."
"Our biosphere is being sacrificed so rich people in countries like mine can live in luxury. It's the suffering of the many which pay for the luxuries of the few," she went on to add. "You say you love your children above all else, and yet you're stealing their future before their very eyes."
"You say you love your children above all else and yet, you're stealing their future in front of their very eyes."
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15-year-old @GretaThunberg speaks at #COP24. pic.twitter.com/0Ex5dpNVUa
"We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. We have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not."
Thunberg's powerful challenge has spread like wildfire on social media, and hopefully beyond as well. And to be sure, if she sounds frustrated, she is. Young though she is, she's been campaigning to fight climate change for a while now.
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She grabbed headlines earlier this for ditching school to go on strike for two weeks, just before Sweden's general elections.
Following the country's hottest summer ever, she sat in silent protest on the pavement outside the parliament building in Stockholm, with placards and leaflets that read, "I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future."
