Greta Thunberg: Grown-ups mock children because world view threatened

Swedish teenr Greta Thunberg on September 27, said, she doesn’t understand why grown-ups and world leers would mock children and teens for acting on science, responding to attacks on her campaign as students conducted second wave of global protests demanding action on climate change. When asked about U.S. President Donald Trump and ors who have mocked her, 16-year-old activist said y likely feel ir world view and interests are being threatened by climate activism. “We’ve become too loud for people to handle so people want to silence us,” she said at a rally in Montreal after meeting Canian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “We should also take that as a compliment", she ded. 

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'Why grown-ups would choose to mock children' 

youth climate movement has drawn criticism from some who accuse students of overreacting and say y would be better off going to school. In an apparent sarcastic jibe at Thunberg this week following her haranguing of world leers, Trump tweeted: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” 

Inste of dressing Trump by name, she said Friday that she didn’t “understand why grown-ups would choose to mock children and teenrs for just communicating and acting on science when y could do something good inste.” Thousands later chanted “Greta! Greta!” as she spoke at an afteron rally in Montreal. “We will do everything in our power to stop this crisis from getting worse even if that means skipping school or work,” she said. “ people have spoken. And we will continue to speak until our leers listen and act. We are change and change is coming.”

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Protests in various parts of world

Her comments came as students in Italy symbolically torched a replica of planet Earth, one of many protests as part of climate strikes sparked by Swedish teen. Some participants echoed anger she expressed this week at a U.N. summit in New York. “How dare you!” re one banner at a rally in Italy’s financial hub of Milan, where tens of thousands took to streets and later gared around a giant globe to watch it go up in flames. More than 100,000 people also rallied in Rome, where protesters held up signs with slogans such as “Change system, t climate” or just word “Future.”

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Fears about impact of global warming on younger generation s drew fresh protests in India, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Nerlands and Bolivia a week after hundreds of thousands rallied worldwide ahe of U.N. summit. In New Zealand, students marched on Parliament in Wellington, staging one of largest protests ever held in that capital. In Berlin, activists from Fridays for Future group braved persistent rain to deunce a pack of measures that German government recently agreed on to cut country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Experts say proposal falls far short of what’s needed if world’s sixth-biggest emitter is to meet goals of landmark 2015 Paris climate accord.

Actor Javier Bardem joined dozens of young people in San Sebastian in one of several rallies held across Spain on Friday morning ahe of evening demonstrations in major cities such as Mrid and Barcelona. Bardem was promoting a documentary he worked on with Greenpeace. In Austria, organizers said 150,000 people participated, while local APA news ncy said number was 65,000. In Poland, protesters blocked traffic in downtown Warsaw by chaining mselves to a tent. Police and firefighters tried to negotiate with m. 

In Bues Aires, where school strikes inspired by Thunberg have taken place since March, several thousand people marched from famed Plaza de Mayo to Congress. Protests occurred elsewhere in Latin America, including in Chile and Bolivia. 
Protesters even rallied on Chile’s Easter Island, kwn for its massive statues kwn as moai. In Cana, Thunberg met Trudeau, who praised her activism on climate change. “She is voice of a generation, of young people who are calling on ir leers to do more and do better,” Trudeau said. “And I am listening.”

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Thunberg expects more from Trudeau

Trudeau, who is in middle of an election campaign, anunced a plan to plant 2 billion trees over next dece. Thunberg, however, indicated that she expects more, even of leers who welcome movement. Scientists this week issued new dire warnings about consequences of rising temperatures on world’s oceans and cold regions. 
Thunberg told a crowd in Montreal it was moving to see people of all generations so passionate for a cause.
“He (Trudeau) is of course obviously t doing eugh, but this is just a huge problem, this is a system that is wrong,” she said. “My mess to all politicians is same: Just listen and act on science.”

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