The Climate Kids Are Coming

If you don’t know who Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is, you can think of her as an international climate-change counterpart to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Like the rock-star congresswoman from New York, Thunberg is a charismatic young woman whose social-media savvy, moral clarity, and fearless speaking truth to power have inspired throngs of admirers to take to the streets for a better world and call out the politicians and CEOs who are standing in the way.

Greta Thunberg speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is known for championing the #GreenNewDeal and schooling right-wing haters on Twitter. Thunberg, 16, is known for launching the #SchoolStrike4Climate movement—tens of thousands of high-school students worldwide are skipping school on Fridays until their governments treat the climate crisis as an emergency—and for torching billionaires and heads of state at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.

Read the story from The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard  - “The Climate Kids Are Coming.”

We have to work around President Trump’, say Al Gore

After 19 of the 20 nations recommitted to combating climate change at the G20 summit in Germany, Al Gore was in high spirits as he arrived in Australia.

"All around the world, the coal industry is in a
terminal decline" ... former US vice-president
Al Gore in Sydney. 

But the former US vice-president and climate change crusader admitted to concern over the US losing its role as world leader on international issues, including the North Korean missile crisis. 

"It's a period for the United States where we have to work around President Trump," Mr Gore said. "And on some issues, such as those in foreign policy, that's not easy to do.”

In Australia to launch the documentary An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power and meet political and business leaders, Mr Gore lauded the 19 world leaders who agreed the Paris accord on cutting emissions was irreversible.

Read the story by Garry Maddox in the Melbourne Age - “‘We have to work around President Trump’, say Al Gore.”