Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swedish climate activist, called fossil fuel subsidies a «disgrace» before a House committee hearing on Thursday.
«The year …
Greta Thunberg, the 18-year-old Swedish climate activist, called fossil fuel subsidies a «disgrace» before a House committee hearing on Thursday. «The year is 2021, the fact that we are even having this discussion and even more that we are still subsidizing fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money is a disgrace. It is clear proof we have not understood the climate emergency at all,» Thunberg said before the House Oversight Environment Subcommittee’s Earth day hearing on fossil fuel subsidies. «We need to completely divest from fossil fuels, keep carbon in the ground… The U.S. is the biggest emitter in history, that is not my opinion, it is what the science clearly shows,» Thunberg said. Still, the teenage activist expressed doubt that the U.S. would take action at all. «I don’t believe for a second that you will actually do this. The climate crisis does not exist in public debate today,» Thunberg said. «Awareness is so absurdly low that you will still get away with continuing to contribute to the destruction of current and future living conditions.
