Greta Thunberg Fires Back at Trump Official's Mockery — While Ivanka Trump Praises Her
Class is in session, teenage activistGreta Thunbergwarned U.S. Treasury SecretarySteven Mnuchinon Thursday. The Swedish climate change activist fired back at Mnuchin formockingly questioning her educational qualificationsto talk about the global economy earlier this week. “My gap year ends in August, but it doesn’t take a college degree in economics to realize that our remaining 1,5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don’t add up,” Thunberg, 17,tweeted. Mnuchin had waved off Thunberg’s speech at this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the she called on global leaders to take more steps to better combat global warming....