The annual World Economic Forum kicked off with US president Donald Trump criticising climate activists, in contrast with young activist Greta Thunberg who urged the leaders for climate action. They did not directly mention each other.
In his speech, Trump rejected climate emergency, which is a key topic of this year’s economic forum: “We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse”, Trump said, and called the climate activists “heirs of yesterday’s fool…
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