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U.S. NEWS Thursday 29 augusT 2019

Teen activist sails across Atlantic to go to climate meeting

By VERENA DOBNIK manage to work together strike on Fridays after the
Associated Press and to cooperate and to election, spurring thou-
NEW YORK (AP) — Swedish work together despite our sands of young people to
teen climate activist Greta differences, then we will follow suit. Since then, she's
Thunberg arrived in New fail." met the pope, spoken at
York City to chants and Thunberg has become a Davos and attended anti-
cheers Wednesday follow- symbol of a growing move- coal protests in Germany.
ing a trans-Atlantic trip on a ment of young climate She is now taking a year off
sailboat to attend a global activists, leading weekly school to pursue her activ-
warming conference. protests in Sweden that in- ism.
Thunberg, 16, and her crew spired similar strikes in about Thunberg was asked upon
were escorted into a low- 100 cities worldwide. her arrival in New York
er Manhattan marina at She's in New York to speak whether she had a mes-
about 4 p.m., concluding at the United Nations Cli- sage for U.S. President
a two-week crossing from mate Action Summit next Donald Trump, a climate
Plymouth, England. Hun- month. There, she'll join change skeptic.
dreds of activists gathered world leaders who will pres- "My message for him is just: Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, waves
on a Hudson River prom- ent plans to reduce green- listen to the science," she after sailing in New York harbor aboard the Malizia II, Wednes-
enade to cheer her arrival. house gas emissions. said. q day, Aug. 28, 2019.
Thunberg waved, was lifted The boat carrying Thun- Associated Press
onto a dock, then took her berg, the Malizia II, en-
first wobbly steps on dry countered rough seas that
land. slowed it down for a day.
"All of this is very over- Taking turns steering the
whelming," she said of the 60-foot (18-meter) racing
reception, looking slightly yacht were yachtsman
embarrassed. Boris Herrmann and Pierre
The teenager refused to Casiraghi, the grandson of
fly because of the carbon Monaco's late Prince Rain-
cost of plane travel. A 2018 ier III and American actress
study said that because of Grace Kelly.
cloud and ozone forma- This was no pleasure cruise.
tion, air travel may trap two The Malizia is built for high-
to four times more heat speed, offshore racing,
than that caused by just and weight is kept to a
emissions of carbon diox- minimum. There is no toilet
ide and other greenhouse or fixed shower aboard, no
gases. windows below deck and
Speaking to reporters after only a small gas cooker to
she landed, Thunberg said heat up freeze-dried food.
the trip wasn't as uncom- The sailboat's onboard
fortable as she expected. electronics are powered
She didn't get seasick once, by solar panels and under-
she said. But she stressed water turbines.
that "this is not something I Thunberg, the daughter
want everyone to do." of an actor and an opera
"It is insane that a 16-year- singer, became a Europe-
old would have to cross the an celebrity last year when
Atlantic Ocean to make she refused to go to school
a stand," she said. "The cli- in the weeks before Swe-
mate and ecological crisis den's general election to
is a global crisis, the biggest highlight the impact of cli-
crisis that humanity has mate change.
ever faced, and if we don't She continued her school