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Teen Climate Activist Thunberg Scolds Leaders for Inaction

Margaret Besheer

   UNITED NATIONS - Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg scolded world
   leaders Monday at a United Nations summit calling for climate action,
   saying people are suffering and dying from the effects of global
   warming and that all the leaders have are empty words.

   "We are in [the] beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk
   about is money," said Thunberg, who ignited a youth movement with her
   Friday school strikes for climate action.

   She said the science has been clear for 30 years, and still they are
   not doing enough.

   "You are failing us! But the young people are starting to understand
   your betrayal," Thunberg said in a voice filled with emotion. "The eyes
   of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I
   say we will never forgive you."

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