Greta Thunberg cheers on children who skipped school worldwide in climate change protest

Protests with schoolchildren took place in Canada, Italy, India, New Zealand and Spain and were all hailed by the 16-year-old after she inspired her generation to make a stand. In a series of posts on her Twitter page, she praised militant demonstrators – including the controversial group Extinction Rebellion, who shut down London during protests in April and threatened to block planes coming in and out of Heathrow before the police foiled their plan. In a pinned post to her 2.49million followers, she said: “Fridays for future. The school strike continues!”

This comes after the teenager gave a bizarre press conference with other activists that saw her unable to answer questions on Donald Trump and look to her group for help after an awkward silence.

Asked of her message to world leaders and what she would say to President Donald Trump days after she appeared angry at him for upstaging her in front of the UN, she appeared to stutter over when attempting to answer the first question, before ignoring the second.

After asking a journalist to repeat the question, she said: “Our message is that we’ve had enough…”

She trailed off and after being asked the second question again, said she was unable to speak for the rest of the group.

She also prompted the journalist to ask the rest of the group more questions.

This week, an image of her went viral that showed her appearing to glare at the US President from the sidelines as he gave a speech following her own.

She raged at other world leaders in her own speech, claiming her childhood had been stolen due to climate change.

She said: “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you!

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Miss Thunberg’s UN speech was also welcomed by the Secretary-General of the UN António Guterres.

He said: “My generation has failed in its responsibility to protect our planet. That must change.”

However, the climate activist was mocked by the likes of US President Trump.

France’s Education Minister, Jean-Michel Blanquer, also called Ms Thunberg “pessimistic” and questioned the validity of her climate change concerns.

Prince Harry, who is supporting a forest conservation project in Botswana, said: “Genuinely, I don’t understand how anyone in this world, whoever we are – you, us, children, leaders, whoever it is – no one can deny science, otherwise we live in a very, very troubling world.”

After the peach, President Trump said of Miss Thunberg: ““She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”

She then updated her Twitter bio in protest to the remark to: “A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.”

Miss Thunberg, who has Asperger’s syndrome, has hailed her diagnosis, calling it her superpower that helps her climate change activism.

She told CNN: “My diagnosis has definitely helped me keep this focus.

“When you are interested about something you just continue to read about it and you get super focused.”

source: express.co.uk