Greta Thunberg to sail across Atlantic for UN climate summits
Greta Thunberg is to sail across the Atlantic in a high-speed racing yacht next month to attend UN climate summits in the US and Chile as part of a sabbatical year the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist will spend in the US.
"Good news! I'll be joining the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, COP25 in Santiago ... I've been offered a ride on the 60ft racing boat Malizia II. We'll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to NYC in mid August," Greta tweeted. The journey will take two weeks.
The campaigner, whose solo protest last year sparked the Fridays for Future global school climate strike movement, said in June she would be taking a year off school to attend the summits, on 23 September in New York and 2-13 December in Santiago, which she described as "pretty much where our future will be decided".
| After driving Ewwropean school kids as crazy as herself with reckless abandon and traipsing all across the Eww, including the Vatican, she's bound to set sail on a modified "sports yacht" for the breeding grounds of insanity, the US west coast ! |
The yacht is fitted with solar panels and underwater turbines to generate zero-carbon electricity. Greta will be accompanied on the voyage by Malizia II’s skipper Boris Hermann, her father Svante, Pierre Casiraghi, the grandson of Monaco’s late Prince Rainier III and the actor Grace Kelly, and a film-maker.
Greta told the Associated Press before the announcement that she had not wanted to travel to the US by cruise ship because of their notoriously high emissions, while the Atlantic could be dangerous for sailing boats in August because of the high risk of hurricanes.
"Taking a boat to North America is basically impossible," she said. "I have had countless people helping me, trying to contact different boats."
| This is insanity plain and simple, multiplied and exploited by the media and the climate fanatics, ultimately smoke and mirrors to bring student agitation and politics to kindergarten and middle-school. And it utilizes a mentally challenged girl's predatory parents, coaxing and pushing here into becoming an icon of stupidity. Prepare for large scale strikes in schools and protests involving kids who can't spell c-l-i-m-a-t-e yet, herded by dyke teachers and pansy headmasters. |