The 16-year-old Swedish campaigner accused the world’s politicians of putting profit and economic growth before climate protection in her now famous speech to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in September.
And research for the British Science Association (BSA) has found that 54 per cent of 16 to 18-year-olds believe Greta’s attack to be justified.
Speaking to leaders from across the world, Greta 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.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words 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.”
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