'We teenagers and children shouldn't have to take the responsibility. But right now, the world leaders keep acting like children, and somebody needs to be the adult.'
Thousands gathered in Iowa City, Iowa, Friday as part of the ongoing global Climate Strike marches to listen to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist who helped spearhead these"Fridays for Future" protests.
"We told world leaders to act on the science, and we demanded a safe future for us and for everyone, but they didn't' listen," Thunberg said at the Iowa event."As we all know, the U.N. climate action summit was a failure. ... But no matter what, we need to continue.
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