Days after millions of young people took to the streets worldwide to demand emergency action on climate change, leaders gathered for the annual United Nations General Assembly were to try to inject fresh momentum into stalling efforts to curb carbon emissions.
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you," she said.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who convened the summit, had warned governments ahead of the event that they would have to offer action plans to qualify to speak at the summit, which is aimed at boosting the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat global warming.
"Nature is angry. And we fool ourselves if we think we can fool nature, because nature always strikes back, and around the world nature is striking back with fury," Mr Guterres said. US President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, both climate change sceptics, had not been expected to attend, but Mr Trump Trump made a brief unscheduled appearance this afternoon.
I find it hilarious that the fools who have been spouting this nonsense for years always start by 'we only have few years left to turn this around' etc, yet here we are and not a single ounce of difference to the environment since they said such. scamartists
Amazing how many irish 'men' are feeling emasculated by a 16 yr old swedish girl