By Daily Nation
Last year in New York, 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg silenced a roomful of global leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit with an impassioned, hard-hitting truth.
“People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing,” she told them. “We are at the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is fairy tales about money and eternal economic growth. “How dare you!”
The words were delivered in a fashion that only a child, whose future is threatened by lack of commitment and tangible action in saving the earth from the looming catastrophe, can do.
Her speech comes at a time of a global outcry against the wanton destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
People are speaking out against environmental degradation as a result of economic development.
Millions of hectares of forests have been cleared, entire rivers turned into industrial waste, oceans filled with plastics and the air polluted by smoke and harmful gases. Our planet is dying, and we are killing it without abandon. Read more>>
