The climate activist Greta Thunberg said she didn’t want to waste her platform talking about how she dealt with “haters” FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Trump exchanged thinly-veiled swipes with Greta Thunberg today as he criticised the “perennial prophets of doom” and the teenage climate activist lamented the “empty words” from world leaders. In a speech watched by Ms Thunberg, 17, Mr Trump urged executives and ministers to dismiss “predictions of the apocalypse” as the United States joined an initiative to plant, restore or conserve one trillion trees. Soon after his special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, however, Ms Thunberg hit back by attacking global “inaction” on climate change which she warned is “fuelling the flames by the hour”. Without mentioning Mr Trump by name, she accused governments of “giving up” on tackling an issue which is “too uncomfortable” to address. “You say children shouldn’t worry,”…

Source: The Times January 21, 2020 12:00 UTC