PLYMOUTH, England — Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist, climbed nimbly aboard the Malizia II, the racing yacht that will set sail Wednesday afternoon whenever the wind is right and take her across the Atlantic to New York. The journey is expected to take two weeks. The sea is likely to be rough at times.
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Ms. Thunberg is making this epic voyage because she has been invited to participate at the United Nations climate talks in September, and she refuses to fly because aviation has such an enormous carbon footprint.
And so, on a Tuesday morning, under gray skies, here she was, aboard a sleek racing machine that had made many journeys across the ocean, but never with a 16-year-old novice. The boat was fitted with solar panels to power its equipment. The conditions inside were spartan: There is no toilet nor much light in the cabin, so she will have to read by headlamp. In a particularly acute challenge for a teenager with more than 871,000 Twitter followers, she will not have much access to the internet.
Read The New York Times story by Somini Sengupta - “Greta Thunberg Prepares to Set Sail for U.N. Climate Talks.”
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