Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives In New York After Sailing The Atlantic

[brooklynite]

Source: NPR

After a two-week journey sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in New York. She tweeted Wednesday morning that she had anchored off Coney Island. After clearing customs and immigration, she is expected to come ashore in Manhattan in the afternoon.

Thunberg is in the U.S. for the United Nations Climate Action Summit and says she sailed to avoid the greenhouse gas emissions that come with flying on a commercial jet.

Thunberg says she first learned about climate change when she was 8 years old and became very concerned about the future of humanity. At age 11, she says she was depressed and stopped talking and eating.

Link to tweet

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/754818342/teen-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-arrives-in-new-york-after-sailing-the-atlan

[demigoddess]

1. if she can do that, why can't manufacturers stop covering everything they

make with three layers of plastic at the least?? why can't they move to glass bottles or just make it possible to get drinkable water out of our taps?

[Keg Stand]

2. I would love to hear what that young lady has to say. n/t

[cp]

3. We love Greta!

We're old, but we want to be like her. Very inspiring!