Age Concerns
FOR A FEW DAYS there, it almost felt like climate activists had our attention.
It would have been hard to miss the appearance of Greta Thunberg at the United Nations, where the Swedish 16-year-old berated world leaders over their climate-change inaction. Thunberg’s angry glare and strident language cut through the usual diplomatic niceties, and even the ever-escalating political firestorms raging on either side of the Atlantic.
Something special was required to divert the world’s media even briefly from the unpredictable antics of Donald Trump in the United States and Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom, as tides seemed to be turning against them both, but Thunberg’s super-charged indignation did the trick.
A week later, many thousands of our own indignant young people and their supporters flooded the streets on
