Bangladesh, Oct. 4 -- Greta Thunberg, a 16-year old Swedish climate activist, could not expose the charlatanism of seasoned or fluke leaders more emphatically at the special United Nations climate summit in New York. The teenage girl has come to the limelight not for nothing -she has inspired her generation the world over to take the climate issue very seriously. In her brief impassioned speech she did not try to hide how outraged she felt at the dilettantism exhibited by some of the world leaders when there was actually an urgent need for action to stem the deterioration of climate on account of human activities.

That the planet Earth is warming up beyond the tolerable limit is a scientific fact and still world leaders deceptively giving ...