It was a stare down seen around the world when teenage climate change activistGreta Thunbergshot PresidentDonald Trumpan apparent icy glare at the U.N. Climate Action Summit.
“I was stopped because suddenly he came in and security went, ‘You have to step to the side.’ And I just wondered what was going on,” Thunberg told the Scandinavian talk showSkavlan. “And then he showed up. I think I was very shocked.”
“People are suffering. People are dying,” she said in a fiery speech. “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
She later cited 30 years’ worth of “crystal clear” science, and told the global leaders, “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”
“She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” he wrote.
During her interview withSkavlan, Thunberg said she interpreted Trump’s words as sarcastic, but said that “of course” he would write something like that.
“I mean, you can interpret it in many different ways,” she said of his tweet. “But I mean, I knew that sometime he was probably going to say something about me. It was like, it doesn’t make any difference, in a way.”
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Thunberg previously sent a message to the president that his words had little effect on her when she briefly changed her Twitter bio to reflect his tweet.
“A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” it read, according toscreenshots, though she has since changed it once again.
Thunberg, who wasnominated for a 2019 Nobel Peace Prizein March, led the largest climate strike of all time last week, and previously testified before members of Congress, urging them to “listen to the scientists” in order to keep the world from overheating to the point where the planet becomes uninhabitable,The New York Timesreports.
source: people.com
