Teenage British activist stages climate protest on Arctic ice floe

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Like many of her generation, Mya-Rose Craig feels strongly that adults have failed to take the urgent action needed to tackle global warming and ...

Environmental activist and campaigner Mya-Rose Craig, 18, holds a cardboard sign reading"youth strike for climate" as she sits on the ice floe in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, Sep 20, 2020. ABOARD ARCTIC SUNRISE: Like many of her generation, Mya-Rose Craig feels strongly that adults have failed to take the urgent action needed to tackle global warming and so she has headed to the Arctic Ocean to protest.

"I'm here to ... try and make a statement about how temporary this amazing landscape is and how our leaders have to make a decision now in order to save it," she told Reuters Television as she stood with her placard on the edge of the Arctic sea ice. She has travelled hundreds of miles above the Arctic Circle aboard a Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise.

 

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