Greta Thunberg tells Denver rally: ‘We are the change’

Young people must be prepared to continue striking to call for action on climate change for a long time and t back down, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg told a climate strike rally in Denver on Friday. Thunberg said she and fellow youth activists won’t beg those in power to act because she expects leers to keep igring m.

“We will inste tell m if y won’t do it, we will,” 16-year-old said to loud cheers. “ world is waking up and we are change. change is coming wher you like it or t.”

Thunberg again scolds leers

Thunberg spoke for less than 10 minutes to a crowd of several thousand at Civic Center Park near state Capitol. rally highlighted Coloro activists, like Mhvi Chittoor, 8, who has campaigned in state against plastics. Thunberg again scolded leers for t doing eugh to fight climate change and for igring science. Echoing a line from an angry speech at United Nations last month that drew global attention, she said several times of leers, “How dare y,” with some in crowd repeating line.

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“Fridays for Future” 

Thunberg began holding solitary demonstrations outside Sweden’s parliament in August 2018, skipping classes once a week to protest climate change. Her “Fridays for Future” demonstrations have inspired millions across world to st protests urging leers to tackle global warming. Thunberg’s Denver appearance followed rallies in rth Dakota’s Standing Rock Indian Reservation and in Rapid City and Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She plans to keep touring Americas through a U.N. climate conference in Chile in December.

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Thunberg began her remarks Friday by ackwledging that crowd h gared on land that once belonged to Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes. Those attending included fourth-grers from Downtown Denver Expeditionary School who have been studying climate change. Zariah Edwards, 9, said she has learned to unplug appliances when she wasn’t using m to save energy. Malisse Doung, also 9, said her class learned how changing climate is affecting polar bears. Ellie Rusiva of Denver was among a group of ults taking photos of Thunberg with ir cellphones from edge of park’s amphiater. She said she thought Thunberg’s plain and clear way of speaking was very powerful and captured feelings of many.

“We have all felt that we need to make a change,” she said.

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