United States, Sept. 24 -- By Pita Ligaiula in New York
World leaders attending Monday's Climate Action Summit at the United Nations on Monday were accused for failing to act on climate change by 16 year old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg.
In an emotional speech, Thunberg said: "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean, yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?
"And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" she said.
Thunberg said for more than 30 ye...