“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg told world leaders at the 2019 UN climate action summit in New York on Monday. In an emotionally charged speech, she accused them of ignoring the science behind the climate crisis, saying: “We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth - how dare you!”