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- The Guardian Thursday 15 Aug ust 2019
6Jonathan WattsOn white-crested swells under leaden
skies, the teenage climate activist
Greta Thunberg set sail from Plymouth
on arguably her most daunting chal-
lenge yet.
A two-week Atlantic crossing in
a solar-powered yacht during hurri-
cane season is the fi rst obstacle, but
it is unlikely to be the toughest in a n
odyssey through the Americas over
many months.
This will be both the ultimate gap
year and a journey into the heart of
climate darkness: fi rst to the United
States of President Donald Trump,
who has promised to pull out of theParis climate agreement , and then
down to South America, possibly
including Brazil, where its leader,
Jair Bolsonaro, is overseeing a surge
in deforestation in the Amazon.
In between, the 16-year-old Swede
will add her increasingly infl uential
voice to appeals for greater emissions
cuts at two crucial gatherings: the Cli-
mate Action Summit in New York on
23 September and the UN climate con-
ference in Santiago in early December.
Her reception is likely to be mixed,
with the climate crisis a polarising
issue in US politics. Steve Milloy, a Fox
News contributor and former mem-
ber of the Trump transition team,
described Thunberg this week as “the
ignorant teenage climate puppet ”.
The founder of the school climateSailing off into a
storm: Thunberg’s
solar-powered
trip to Trump’s US
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