Teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said the \u201cwar on nature must end\u201d and called on Donald Trump to listen to science after she sailed into New York on a zero-emissions yacht on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
She will be participating in UN climate summits in New York City and Chile.<\/p>\n
The 16-year-old Swede sailed from Plymouth in the UK on a zero-emissions yacht in order to minimise the carbon footprint of her travel.<\/p>\n
The Swede also rebuked Trump, a notorious climate change skeptic.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy message for him is listen to the science and he obviously doesn’t do that,\u201d she said, as she brought her environmental message to the United States for the first time.<\/p>\n
Thunberg poked fun at the president too by saying she was \u201cpretty sure\u201d windmills don’t cause cancer, in reference to a comment Trump made at a Republican fundraising event in April.<\/p>\n
The teenager has become a symbol for climate action with her stark warnings of catastrophe if the world does not act now to cut carbon emissions and curb global warming.<\/p>\n
Thunberg, who was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at the age of 12, began sitting outside the Swedish parliament in August 2018 to get members to act on climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said the \u201cwar on nature must end\u201d and called on Donald Trump to listen to science after she sailed into New York on a zero-emissions yacht on Wednesday. She will be participating in UN climate summits in New York City and Chile. The 16-year-old Swede sailed from Plymouth in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,31,14,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-news","category-travel","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8734,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions\/8734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}