Greta Thunberg joins LA protest of oil drilling

Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish girl who accused international leers of standing idly by as global warming threatens to destroy planet in a speech shared around world is joining young activists in Los Angeles for a protest aimed at getting California out of oil-drilling business.

Thunberg is scheduled keyte speaker at Friday’s downtown rally organized by Youth Climate Strike Los Angeles as part of an effort to have state put more restrictions on oil extraction, especially in densely populated urban neighborhoods like those dotting Los Angeles and surrounding cities.

“Our goal is to shut down oil wells that are around communities where people are suffering,” said 17-year-old Kailynn Cruz, le organizer of protest that plans a march from City Hall to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Los Angeles office. Protesters want California, one of nation’s largest oil-producing states, to eventually end petroleum extraction.

After members of her group saw Thunberg le thousands in a global-warming protest last month in New York y decided to invite her to Los Angeles.

teen, who arrived in New York from her native Sweden in a zero-emissions sailboat, eviscerated world leers in a passionate speech at United Nations on Sept. 23, accusing m of taking away her childhood and endangering her future by making promises to attack global warming but t doing so.

“For more than 30 years, science has been crystal clear,” she said, citing global-warming statistics. “How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing eugh when politics and solutions needed are still where in sight.”

Earlier this week she refused a rdic Council Environment Prize and $52,000 that comes with it, saying w is time for action, t awarding of prizes.

Cruz, who said she watched Thunberg’s speech, ded she became an activist last year after her environmental science teacher told his students pretty much same thing Thunberg h learned.

“He was teaching environmental design, telling us our Earth is dying and one was really paying attention,” college freshman said. “And that night he sent us a climate report, and I was reing and reing and I saw that what was going on was actually what our teacher was saying. That our planet was dying.”