Thunberg injects fresh momentum into climate fight
The star on the world stage this week was clearly 16-year-old Swedish girl Greta Thunberg, not the US president, who was under impeachment inquiry just hours after speaking at the UN General Assembly attacking globalism and multilateralism and continuing to tout his nationalist "America first" ideology.
Thunberg, who began her protest outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 by holding a sign calling for stronger climate action, has since inspired a global movement against climate change. Her emergence on the world stage coincides with the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and other multilateral and global accords and institutions that have greatly undermined the global climate cause.
On Sunday, just a day before the UN Climate Action Summit, top climate scientists issued a stern warning that sea-level rise, global warming, melting ice sheets and carbon pollution have accelerated in the past several years.
