'This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.' Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg called on world leaders Tuesday to acknowledge the seriousness of global warming and that not enough is being done to curb it.
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg called on world leaders Tuesday to acknowledge the seriousness of global warming and that not enough is being done to curb it.
"This is above all an emergency and not just any emergency. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced," she said, adding:"This is not something you can like on Facebook." Thunberg has often struck a much darker tone than some of her fellow activists and refused to hold back from criticizing her audiences.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who has invited world leaders to a climate summit in New York in September, said countries aren't doing enough to meet the Paris climate agreement's goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century compared with pre-industrial times.
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