On Wednesday, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg embarked on her journey to the United Nations climate talks in New York from Plymouth, England -- by boat.
Why by sea? Because, as Greta noted in a New York Times interview, if you want to travel from Europe to North America with zero emissions, you’ve got to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
In response, a former Trump staffer has called Thunberg “the ignorant teenage climate puppet.”
But Thunberg considers these attacks like these to be a distraction. She told a reporter: “They are doing everything they can to switch the focus from the climate crisis to me... that is what you have to expect when you talk about these things.”
Climate change, the most pressing issue facing our planet, ranks among Democratic voters’ top five priorities, but Trump has rolled back regulations meant to mitigate the crisis. Today, we need to hear from you as Greta Thunberg makes her journey:
