It’s the world’s northernmost town and the one heating up the fastest. Longyearbyen in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago is trying to adapt to rising temperatures and sea levels. But the pace of change might be too quick to deal with.
After taking a solar-powered boat from England to New York City to attend the United Nations Climate Action Summit, Thunberg sat down with The Washington Post to discuss her role in the fight for preventing climate change.
We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis. Scientists agree we’ve entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown and are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making. The Time For Denial Is Over. It is Time to Act! Animation by Movult.