Greta Thunberg led the way. Children skipping school to protest against global warming is an indictment of adult complacencySuch is the upside-down, topsy-turvy state of our world, that the children are now the adults and the adults are the children. In Westminster, our supposed leaders - men and women of mature vintage - keep stamping their feet and demanding what no one can give them.They insist they should be allowed to gobble up all the birthday cake and still have cake left to eat, threatening to storm out of the European Union and slam the door behind them. As Dominic Grieve, the former attorney general, rightly puts it: "Threatening to leave is the behaviour of a three-year-old who says that they are going to hold their breath if they do not get the toy that they want." Continue reading...
We failed the young on climate change - now we must listen to them | Jonathan Freedland
15. února 2019 19:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/15/young-climate-change-greta-thunberg-children
Zdroj: The Guardian