Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg joined other youth leader...
WASHINGTON - Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg joined other youth leaders to urge U.S. lawmakers to support “transformative climate action” during two days of meetings and speeches on Capitol Hill, starting on Tuesday.
The events are intended to drum up support ahead of a global “climate strike” on Friday in which students and workers around the world will walk out to demand more action to fight global warming and pressure leaders attending the annual United Nations summit in New York later this month. “This movement is something that comes at a critical time,” Markey said outside the Capitol building. “The science has made it very clear that the planet is running out of time.”Thunberg shot to international fame last year when she started skipping school every Friday to demonstrate outside Sweden’s parliament for action on climate change.
Markey is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal congressional resolution with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a high-profile New York Democrat who plans to meet with the activists this week.
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