Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg leads a protest outside the U.N. following her two-week sail across the Atlantic.
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is drawing crowds on land after her two-week sail across the Atlantic.She was surrounded by hundreds of youth activists chanting"fossil lobbyists have got to go" and"it's too hot!" — a reference to global warming.
It was the New York edition of her weekly Fridays For Future — the student school strikes she's inspired in about 100 cities worldwide. The teenager became a celebrity last year by playing hooky from school to force Swedish politicians to pay attention to what she calls"a war on nature."
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