CORRECTED-Activist Thunberg says global leaders still in denial over climate
Reuters
5/4/2021
(Corrects dateline to May 4 and day in paragraph 1 to Tuesday)
STOCKHOLM, May 4 (Reuters) - Politicians, including Sweden's leaders, are still in denial over the threat from climate change, environmental activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday after meeting Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
"We climate activists have had, I don't know how many meetings with the people in power and it is, basically, the same discussion every time - there is a complete denial," Thunberg told reporters after the meeting.
"The sense of crisis is absolutely zero."
Thunberg, who shot to fame in 2018 when her lone protest outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm over the lack of action to stop climate change became a global movement, also criticised the media for downplaying the seriousness of the crisis.