Forget Brexit and focus on climate change, Greta Thunberg tells EU

The teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has chided EU leaders for holding three emergency summits on Brexit and none on the threat posed by climate change. In a clarion call to Europe’s political leaders ahead of European parliament elections in May, the founder of the school strike movement said if politicians were serious about tackling climate change they would not spend all their time “talking about taxes or Brexit”. In a typically blunt speech, she said politicians were failing to take enough action on climate change and the threats to the natural world. “Our house is falling apart and our leaders need to start acting accordingly because at the moment they are not,” the 16-year old schoolgirl from Sweden told a standing-room-only meeting of MEPs and EU officials in Strasbourg. “If our house was falling apart our leaders wouldn’t go on like we do today,” she said. “If our house was falling apart you wouldn’t hold three emergency Brexit summits and no emergency summit regarding the breakdown of the climate and the environment.” While climate change is sometimes discussed at the EU’s regular summits, the issue has never dominated as Brexit, migration or the eurozone crisis have often monopolised […]

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