16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg asks U.S. Congress for action, not praise
WASHINGTON - Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday called for action, not praise, from U.S. lawmakers as she joined other youth leaders in kicking off two days of meetings and speeches on Washington's Capitol Hill.
"Please save your praise. We don’t want it," Thunberg told the Senate Climate Change Task Force."Don’t invite us here to tell us how inspiring we are without doing anything about it because it doesn’t lead to anything." Democratic Senator Ed Markey, chairman of the task force, called the growing number of young protesters the new"X-Factor" in politics, and said their passion could play a significant role in next year's U.S. presidential elections.
The Green New Deal is a non-binding congressional resolution Markey co-sponsored with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fellow Democrat, that aims to transform the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels within a decade.President Trump, one of the few world leaders who openly question the science of climate change, has made a priority of rolling back Obama-era climate protections he says are not necessary and hurt the U.S. economy.
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