Posted on 10/09/2019 11:46:07 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia’s parliament has invited Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to address young Russians concerned about the environment.
The 16-year-old schoolgirl has catalyzed global school strikes and inspired Russia's nascent climate protest movement. Thunberg’s impassioned speech at the United Nations General Assembly last week sparked a fierce backlash in Russian society.
“I invite you to give a speech to Russian youth in the State Duma on any date convenient for you,” lawmaker Vasily Vlasov wrote to Thunberg, according to excerpts of his letter published by the state-run RIA Novosti news agency Tuesday.
Vlasov, 24, a senior member of the Duma’s Natural Resources Committee, highlighted his youth in the letter sent to the Swedish embassy.
“I’m aware of young people’s concerns in Russia about global environmental issues and how difficult it can be for adult politicians to come to a compromise even on such vital issues,” he said.
“We as the younger generation must not remain silent when it comes to our future, and we won’t allow ourselves to be condemned to extinction,” Vlasov wrote.
Recent natural disasters in Russia such as the wildfires that raged across Siberia earlier this year have turned the public’s attention toward the effects of the global climate crisis, according to Greenpeace Russia.
The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry this month acknowledged that Russia, the world’s fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is heating faster than the rest of the world. While the country is in the process of ratifying the 2015 Paris climate accord, outside trackers say Russia still lags behind the rest of the world in climate action implementation.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Of course traveling by fossil fuel.
Russia wants to be the sole oil product supplier for most of Europe.
Keeping the USA out of that market is their goal
“Duma’s Natural Resources Committee,”
Its spelled “Dumb Ass”
“”I invite you to give a speech to Russian youth in the State Duma on any date convenient for you,””
Don’t hold your breath, Russia. It may take a year or even more for her to manage to get to Russia without the use of modern day transportation which she is totally opposed to. I guess she could start walking now but I thought she was still here on the North American continent? Last I heard no one even knows how she plans on leaving this continent. Guess if she ever gets back to her home, she can find a rowboat and row to Russia..
PS - she sure is ugly!
Perfect.
Totalitarian state listens to totalitarian idiot child.
according to their website they are based in Moscow.
That's GOOD !
Moscow Times was printed in Moscow and distributed in airports, restaurants and hotels frequented by English speaking people. The only entities who subscribed to it were schools and universities around Russia who used it to teach English to students. AFAIK paper version is gone since 2017.
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