Youth activists raised the U.N. climate summit's profile. Will it leave them disappointed?
by Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times
Sep 23, 2019
3 minutes
UNITED NATIONS - As the U.N. Climate Action Summit kicks off Monday in New York, young environmental activists who swarmed the streets in protest are already looking beyond the official gathering, a recognition that it will take sustained pressure to force governments, many of them allied with the fossil fuel industry, to take meaningful action.
"This is only the beginning," 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg told the crowd of protesters Friday in New York.
"We are doing this to wake the leaders up, we are doing this to get them to act," said Thunberg, the most
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