On a high-speed, zero-emissions vessel, Greta Thunberg arrived in the U.S. from Europe on August 29 – a masterpiece of symbolism and PR savvy, the kind which by now we’ve come to expect from the Swedish teenager and her fellow activists in the Fridays for Future movement. In the space of just one short year, their audacious “school strikes” on Fridays have prompted a startling reality check among citizens and politicos in much of Europe and beyond, including German chancellor Angela Merkel – but, alas, not in the US. Paul Hockenos reports Thunberg underscores that she hasn’t spent two weeks on a tiny 60-ft high-tech yacht with no kitchen or toilet in order to have an audience with the US president – or his climate-denying followers.“Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?,” Thunberg told CBS. “I can’t say anything that he hasn’t already heard.” So, why then has Ms. Thunberg taken the trouble and considerable risk to sail carbon-free to the new world? First on … Continue reading Greta’s Coming for Us: It’s the climate-change believers she’s out to flip