Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s wife on Saturday appeared to publicly break with her husband over support for Greta Thunberg's climate change activism
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s wife on Saturday appeared to publicly break with her husband over support for Greta Thunberg's climate change activism.
“I stand with Greta on this issue. ,” actress Louise Linton wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post after Mnuchin chided the 17-year-old’s call for governments to end their support of fossil fuels at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, saying she should attend college and study economics.“Is she the chief economist? Who is she, I’m confused,” Mnuchin was quoted as saying during a news conference before later claiming he was joking.
Thunberg responded to Mnunchin’s apparent dismissal of her by tweeting out a graph from a U.N. report on the world’s remaining carbon budget, a topic she also addressed in her Davos speech. “My gap year ends in August, but it doesn’t take a college degree in economics to realise that our remaining 1,5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don’t add up,” Thunberg wrote without addressing Mnuchin by name.
“So either you tell us how to achieve this mitigation or explain to future generations and those already affected by the climate emergency why we should abandon our climate commitments,” she added.“We need to drastically reduce our use of fossil fuels,” she wrote. “Keep up the fight @gretathunberg.”Earlier this week, Mnuchin said Thunberg could explain climate change, “after she goes and studies economics in college.
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