Teen Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to shun plane for sailboat as she heads to summits

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose social-media-savvy brand of eco-activism has inspired tens of thousands of students in Europe to skip classes and protest for urgent action against climate change, said Monday that she plans to take her message to America the old-fashioned way: by boat.

Thunberg plans to take a year off from school to keep raising awareness of climate change and pressuring world leaders to step up efforts to curb global warming.Since starting her “school strikes” in August 2018, the daughter of an actor and an opera singer has appeared before policymakers at last year’s U.N. climate conference in Poland and harangued business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Her visibility has made Thunberg a target for those who reject the overwhelming consensus among scientists that climate change is being driven by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, released by the burning of fossil fuels.Thunberg said she’s unsure how her message will be received in the United States, where there’s broad opposition to the kind of radical measures scientists say are required to limit global warming to 1.

Aside from attending a summit hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the global body’s annual assembly on Sept. 23, Thunberg plans to take part in several climate protests in New York. The British band The 1975s has released an album with a short essay by Thunberg set to music. It ends with her declaring “it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel.”

It’s a plastic boat...

Child abuse

Interesting ... bet she doesn’t have a real clue about the subject ...would guess she is being “used” and doesn’t even realize it ... 😳

Ummm ever heard of Skype?

God bless

she's right, more leg room and she doesn't have to deal with the nasty gate agents or TSA.

Power. Influence. This is a great photo. It helps that I deeply admire what she is doing.

At least she is walking the walk!

It is stupidity to give this child a platform. She must go to school to learn. She obviously need it. climatehoac climatemadness

gotta be one of the dumber things ive seen in a while

In the largest font available on Twitter... E X P L O I T A T I O N of an child who has no life experience outside of scripted input.

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