Teen who sparked youth climate strike blasts UK parliament for 'beyond absurd' response to global warming

The Swedish teen who sparked a youth movement to combat climate change denounced the United Kingdom's parliament for its "beyond absurd" response to global warming. 

Greta Thunberg, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year for her advocacy, delivered the criticism while addressing members of parliament on Tuesday. 
“We probably don’t even have a future anymore,” Thunberg said at one point in her speech, according to Time Magazine. “That future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money. It was stolen from us every time you said that the sky was the limit, and that you only live once.”

Thunberg also criticized the U.K. for its support of shale gas fracking and its expansion of North Sea oil and gas fields and and airports. She said that "this ongoing irresponsible behavior" would be "remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind," BBC reported. 

Time Magazine added that Thunberg additionally slammed the government for discussing ways to lower emissions instead of eliminating them completely. 
"[It] is perhaps the greatest force behind the continuing business as usual,” she said. 

Thunberg, who founded the Youth Strike for Climate, gained increasing attention in recent months for her calls to demand that leaders enforce policies that combat climate change. She began her advocacy last year by handing out leaflets outside Swedish Parliament saying, “I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future.”

Her protests led to many students in different countries participating in protests to combat climate change. Students took part in protests in more than 1,500 cities around the world in a global demonstration on March 15. 

Thunberg was in the U.K. this week to participate in a protest organized by Extinction Rebellion in London, according to Time Magazine. 


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