In an emotional speech, she said:"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?And she urged world leaders to act urgently, saying:"We will be watching you."The moment Greta Thunberg saw President Donald TrumpMr Guterres, who organised the meeting, said the world was"in a deep climate hole" and that urgent action was needed.
"We have introduced in parliament the zero carbon bill, the purpose of which is to ensure New Zealand lives within the threshold of 1.5C of global warming necessary to avoid catastrophic weather events for our Pacific neighbours."The summit comes days after several million people took part in a global climate strike led by youth activists.The World Meteorological Organization saidcompared with the previous five years.
"There is an emergency - one for action in both rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions towards zero and adapting to the inevitable changes in climate," he said.As the dangers of climate heating become ever more apparent, so does the absence of collective will to tackle the issue. Even the UK, a global leader in climate policy-making, is veering away from its own medium-term targets to cut emissions.
BBCPolitics It is wrong for this girl to be used in this way. Emotional blackmail might be how those behind her manipulated their parents but this is too important an issue for those tactics. When she has had to put a roof over her own child’s head and food in its belly, then she can talk.
More than a little unnerving!
No your parents failed you and are using you as a tool . Given you are a child and are dictated what ideology you are spouting . And have no legal rights to access to full information or challenge the mathematics and theory. Because co emotion from UK in 1901 not same as 2019
Go back to school and learn
Should be in school wonder if her parents get fined
Who is this kid and why is everybody obsessed with what she has to say?
Anne Frank said something very similar
But it’s okay to fly out the media and world leaders on their planes haha
SaveKashmir
This is a pathological girl who is shaped by a sick social trend.
She is mentally ill
Yet the young people are some of the biggest consumers of electronics ie smart phones, computers, game consoles etc they all use power and rare earth components they probably rarely walk anywhere and are ferried about by parents etc.
BBCPolitics Keep the green energy companies in business girl. You are just a porn in there greater plans.
This young lady is close to a nervous breakdown and seriously needs help! It's unfortunate that the cause of her stress is not based on fact, but on hysteria while the average world temperature has only changed, .5% in the last 100 years.
She appears to have issues
In 500 or 1000 years time the planet will start resembling Mars if we cannot find a way to clean up Humans existing on the planet. Ill be long dead but dont we have a duty to our future?
Big and justified Slap on politicians and their political will
Really stupid. They will definitely not accept such a message
Child abuse!
Great a is right yet the earth naturally regenerates itself.True and factual that we humans have contributed to the pollution of our planet.True that some/many,disrespect animals.Greed has fogged our horizon.We need to help and try to find equilibrium.
16 year old children shouldn’t be exploited,brainwashed and used for political campaigning by their parents.Shame on every adult in that room. Here's the truth for all the kids who walked out of school to protest about climate change.
BBCPolitics If all these “adults” feel the need to latch onto that poor little sod to make themselves feel better they should seek help quickly
BBCPolitics So volcanoes under the ice sheet has nothing to do with it .
Not as much as her parents are failing her
That child will never be happy. 👶🙄
No they have failed you, by lying & manipulating you to believe some gollywash
It shames me to think of what my generation has left as a legacy for the current youth. Mother Earth has been sacrificed at the alter of grreed
Capitalism will not allow this to happen unless someone can make fuck loads of money out of it
I found her whole demeanour to be extremely concerning. There was a level of fanaticism in her eyes that suggested she suffered considerable damage enduring that voyage across the Atlantic.
It’s all so well her shouting with passion at world leaders but is she also tackling her own generation who lead throwaway lives and have to have the newest phones, electronics, trainers, clothes. That needs to stop too!
BBCPolitics Despite the theatrics she’s right but unfortunately the ‘leaders’ have other things on their mind and like most leaders will only act when they’re country is severely impacted by which time it’s a bit late.
Keep taking the pill luv.
Alas, poor GretaThurnberg is heading for a nervous breakdown & the world will find even more political ammunition to blame world leaders! Not that her activist parents, XR or the foundation , Rising up has anything to do with any indoctrination , do they !! ClimateStrike
TomSwarbrick1 LBC This was an appearance too far by Greta Thunberg. Way too far.
While she is making a difference to the cause in some ways, I fear the real change she wants to witness will not come quickly enough for her, will cause emotional distress and take it's toll on her. Hope she has support with her.
Why isn't she in school? One day she'll realise how badly she's being used by people who should know better.
Posh Kid with well off parents who won't feel the subsequent price increases used to combat climate change.
How sad. This poor girl has autism shame on her parents or who ever used her as an item to push their agenda.
PSEUDO–INTELLECTUAL
BBCPolitics This amazing young woman is so truly remarkable there’s barely words to describe her. It really is quite telling that there are those so terrified of what Greta Thunberg is achieving that they stoop to playground tactics to attempt to discredit her, which of course fail.
BBCPolitics As righteousness her ideas are, vast majority of our race only cares about money. We live in a world that spins around money, we can’t even treat each other with equal respect let alone wipe out the foundations of wrongdoing. To make an impact you need one rule to rule them all.
It's sad that armchair experts on hear believe they know everything. Should we listen to you, or shall we listen to those scientists who study this stuff for years.
'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.' Psychoanalytically you can put forward a good case that these words were meant for her mother and father.
uh , greta had the strength to sail the atlantic , guess climate death only affects hillbillies
She is being used to my mind and her childhood has not been taken away from her, who put that in her mind. Yes leaders need to take more action as all of us but screaming in the UN will not accomplish anything
😴
She’s heard it all before and from far smarter people than are posting in this thread, it doesn’t phase her. If you’ve got a problem with her message, ignore it. To attack her says more about you as a person than her.
Leaders aren’t responsible for individual human beings. We are responsible for our own selves
Leaders are failing children all over the world. Look how many die of preventable diseases every year. Look how many children die from lack of clean water. Our leaders are failing the world's children massively.
Poor girl
Who gives this kid a platform? Obviously she's there as the comodofication of climate change and making money. If I'd rocked up at 16 with a beef I'd have been given a lolly and a leaflet. Who has created this Climate Zavaroni?
I always get nervous when the bbc get interested in a child
I completely agree with what she is saying and her overall message. However, I did find her really annoying to listen to, patronising adults will not help her. She needs to change her approach but her points are all valid.
She gets around, doesn't she Greta. Wonder if she would let me have her air miles?
I agree we need to do something about pollution but we need to start with educating the children to stop being wasteful and get off you electronic devices.
She gives me the willys
What a complete load of rubbish, too young to remember much hotter weather in the 70s, scientists saying we were in for an ice age in the 60s. Deadly heat waves in the 30s and 40s. The planet is cooling but that doesn’t fit the BS narrative.
Grow up woman
How many 16 year olds get to skip school and travel the ocean on a boat? All at someone else's expense. Living the dream, girl. Enjoy it.
She needs to be fucking younger, I like the asbergers from the disability perspective, but you wonder would a able bodied little girl be more tearful..
Adults have failed this lass. She is paraded around like some virtuous puppet.
Always trust a woman that is stronger than leaders.
It's all a load of old cobblers, its seems everyone is a clairvoyant these days
It's all bollocks... she's had 3 months on a boat to practice her oscar worthy speech
Many things to worry about there and I wouldn’t necessarily but climate change at the top.
Emotions, emotions ... where is reasoning and wisdom? Person cult in serious issues ... I dont like it.
keep taking the pills
Gone too far this time, exploiting a 16-year old with a history of mental illness, to push Climate cult!
Leave the poor girl alone
Very likely they have, however try prising a mobile phone, with all of the rare elements in them, from a teenager or say no I'm not going to give you a lift.
What's the real agenda here?
Go back to school then, it was your parents who exploited you and put you on the boat to the US. No sympathy. Harry
Greta Thunberg: 'Parents failed her on vulnerability’
It really is frustrating to see this constantly misinformed child berate her betters as if she has some magical insight into the functioning of the planet, and has any sort of right to be accepted for her lies. She does not understand science, nor people, nor this planet.
Bet she hasn't a clue about any of it if asked off stage.
/🧡💙 ! Greta Thunberg ! You tell em especially President Trump! whom denies that the World is Warming so ! In danger of Catastrophic events happening that cannot be Corrected ?
Tell it to the Chinese.
Get this little girl back into school & shut her up , what gives her the rite to speak to people like this , she is just a child
She is wearing a bit thin now.
Dont see them protesting in China and Russia, funny that!
Who r u really
Leaders failed us on not stopping a Venerable child being groomed, abused and exploited by adults for their own gain.
How this girls has knowledge of something this’s ridiculous
She's a puppet
No, her parents failed Greta, badly.
Once you become the story, it’s time to back off. “You’re only here to make money”, but travelled to New York on a 4 million dollar yacht, owned by multi-millionaires from Monaco
her parents failed to lay off alcohol throughout pregnancy. they failed her, not the politicians.
2020 oscar for best Actress goes to Greta Thunberg
We need 2 stop pandering 2 this child. She needs the attention taken away from her. She needs counselling. If her parents r not prepared 2 uphold their duty of care 2wards this child then adults outside of family need to step in. It is shameful the way adults are treating her.
It’s really sad to hear her say her childhood was stolen from her. How was she raised?
You can't stop climate change let alone reverse it. It doesn't matter what you do it won't make any difference except to bankrupt the countries who try to implement the frankly ridiculous targets the idiot IPCC and UN are trying to impose. Greta or no Greta
Her whole speech offered no sort of solution of course of action it was a stunt plain and simple
There is something very wrong with all of this
A 16 year old get being verbally abused by some tweeters. Shame on you.
Must be a time traveler
Time to curb hot air emissions.
She will be forgetten about in a years time and so will her protest. People will get bored of her. Her passion is admirable but lets be honest it wont change anything.
In the past there were those who slaughtered millions, crushed civilizations, and hunted whole species‘ to extinction. But their evil will be as nothing compared to the destruction we are tolerating every day now. We must end this cult of greed & vanity called capitalism!
theskibeagle What I find most striking is that those of limited wit, or intellect, seem very threatened by a young woman who is holding World leaders accountable. Any explanations?
theskibeagle Yes dear. I'm a ThunbergDenier
She got the UN memo. Singles out five countries for criticism. NOT ONE WORD on China which just revealed 220+GW of NEW coal fired power stations. Thanks to the farce of the Paris Climate Accord. Ps: NEVER use kids as mouthpieces. Especially troubled kids. SHAME ON THE UN!
At least one travel airline has gone, less plane's in the air, now to stop the other travelling people to stop doing things they like, and stay at home, in the dark, no heating, sell the car, and, the worse thing, Make kid's walk to school, that will be harder to do
Nobody can be comfortable watching this kid be put through this nonsense, its sick and it needs to stop.
Anyone else cringing?....
Winter is coming. I wish she was right. 4 more years of summer would be a treat.
I personally neither no nor care what a child thinks about these matters. I believe the science but I don’t think it’s best portrayed by a privileged child. Lifelong experts should be the ones there.
Likes the sound of her own voice that one...
Yawn
Climate change being caused by humans is a myth that is being used to generate wealth for people who are losing out due to the oil running out.... Also, Greta has alot of questions and not so many answers
Bloody hell bbc! How many times you going to tweet this garbage! Are you political activists now! This seems to me like pushing an ideology! NoDealStays EU_Commission EndTheMigrationPact UN JuliaHB1 piersmorgan realDonaldTrump Nigel_Farage
crazier than a coconut.
these climate activists and vegans must be two of the most annoying groups on the planet . we should save the planet by turning them into soylent green
Shell_US et al failed us. They knew about this disaster 40 years ago. And did nothing.
Go home 😒
While I fully agree climate/pollution has to be addressed, all I see is those protesting, but offering no practical solutions. Is it going to be the west that pays for the Asian ‘clean up’, meaning ultimately the man in the street pays !
Making Trump look a bit small and stupid is a great achievement, well done !!!
You are so behind this scam, aren't you, BBC? ClimateChange
Fjordman1
Little Hitler!
And all your school chums are covering nice places in climate graffiti.. I’m seeing it every where I go lately!!!
they care more about their kickbacks than peoples lives
She keeps spouting innaccuracies and nonsense as well as being a hypocrite.
The Paris Climate Agreement is a total FRAUD and President Trump is the only Politician with the guts and the honesty to stand up and say so!!
And what should we do......with these..... leaders!!!!
Including Obama who opened the Arctic to drilling so maybe no more photo ops with him GretaThunberg
Wednesday Addams angry kid performance better than Dakota fanning just to have govs to tax more .
I love that people would rather believe she is a stooge, a prop and a victim rather than a young woman with more passion in her little toe than they could ever dream of having in their sad little lives.
United Kingdom Latest News, United Kingdom Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »
Source: Daily Mail Online - 🏆 135. / 51 Read more »
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »
Source: The Independent - 🏆 80. / 59 Read more »
Source: The Guardian - 🏆 84. / 53 Read more »