NEW: Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News that powerful men like Trump 'want to silence' young climate activists
Teenage Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg believes that world leaders like President Trump have begun attacking the youth movement she has helped mobilize because they realize it is “making an impact,” she said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News.
After Thunberg delivered an impassioned address at the United Nations climate summit that called out world leaders for their inaction, President Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax,” mocked the 16-year-old with a sarcastic tweet. Following each slight, Thunberg altered her Twitter bio, first to read “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future,” and then “A kind but poorly informed teenager.”
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