President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, December 12, 2019, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection “ridiculous."
This scene of economic disparity during a natural disaster is highlighted in a new United Nations report that warns “human rights might not survive the coming upheaval” from global climate change.
The shill, the grifter, the egomaniac and the ideological fool: each distorts the urgent global debate in their own way, says the Guardian’s Environment editor,