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Adults, Greta Thunberg Is Disappointed In You: ‘You Just Haven’t Listened’

Hank Berrien
Adults, Greta Thunberg Is Disappointed In You: ‘You Just Haven’t Listened’
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On Thursday, The New York Times published an essay by “youth climate activists” led by Greta Thunberg that lectured adults about climate change, pompously charging, “Young people like us have been sounding this alarm for years. You just haven’t listened.” They add, “We are the ones who will have to clean up the mess you adults have made.”

The youth activists were responding to the publication of a United Nations scientific report that triggered the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, to issue an apocalyptic statement saying, “Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 report is a code red for humanity.”

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