Why are the children so angry?
Do you know this woman? Hint: she addressed the largest ever gathering of world leaders at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992. Severn Cullis-Suzuki was no ordinary 12 year old. She had a lot of big things to say. It was an impressive speech with a simple message about our environment: " please stop breaking it!". It went viral in 2008 and has 32 million views but you are more likely to be familiar with a rather more frustrated looking 16 year old Swedish child 27 years later. They had similar messages. Can you guess who said what? "Did you have to worry about these things when you were my age? I challenge you, please make your actions reflect your words.” "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. " Greta Thunberg had a much more angry disposition. Well she had a lot more to be angry about. In the intervening 27 years, global warming has sped up considerably and research has...