Teen tells climate negotiators they aren't mature enough
(CNN)Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swedish environmental activist, all but shamed the 190 countries represented at the United Nations COP24 conference in Poland last week.
The young activist accused negotiators -- gathered in Katowice to establish rules for the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change -- of abandoning future generations. "You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes," Thunberg said during an address to attendees on Wednesday.
The so-called "Paris Rulebook" agreed to on Saturday falls short of achieving its goals. Scientists and negotiators say that countries would have to do far more than what the rules stipulate to curb fossil fuel use and deforestation and avoid severe weather associated with global warming.
Thunberg, who became a symbol for youth climate activism after skipping school to protest climate change outside of Sweden's Parliament in September, has inspired thousands of children to rally for climate justice. Below is here speech in full:
My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden.
I speak on behalf of Climate Justice Now.
Many people say that Sweden is just a small country and it doesn't matter what we do.
But I've learned you are never too small to make a difference.
And if a few children can get headlines all over the world just by not going to school, then imagine what we could all do together if we really wanted to. But to do that, we have to speak clearly, no matter how uncomfortable that may be.
You only speak of green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake.
You are not mature enough to tell it like is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/16/world/greta-thunberg-cop24/index.html
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Greta Thunberg tells the truth.
Why is she ignored? 
