Greta Thunberg has established herself as the planet’s spokeswoman on climate change at the tender age of 16. But long before social media, another teenager was scolding UN leaders on the world stage 27 years ago.
In the year since she organized school walkouts in her native Sweden to protest climate change, Greta Thunberg’s environmental crusade has been unavoidable, culminating on Monday in an angry and passionate speech before the UN’s Climate Action Summit, in which she lambasted politicians for stealing her “dreams” and her “childhood” with “empty words” while humanity stares down “a mass extinction.”
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