a number of organizations, including greta thunberg, conveyed to us the desire to formulate, if possible a single legal strategy in order to respond to a challenge that affects all nations. greta: i am very much shown in the media, and thefore it is extremely important that we also highlight the her plaiiffs. we need to get better of listening to everyone, and therefore there is also one other reason to why this petition is so powerful and so important. [litokne speaking marshallese] foaves crashing] the waves came, and then they removed the piece of land that used to be over here. so over here is what used to be our outside bathroom, and then it was knocked away. this was used to be a basketball court area for small kids, but it destroyed. all this area was impacted, and it was flooded. 60% of the community here on ebeye has been damaged or affected by the rising seas and climate change. [children talking indistinctly] woman: the world talked about climate change before us. it's an existential threat. for the marshallese youth, we have 3 that are signature to the petition. we are very p

prior to the summit, the 17-year-old swedish climate activist greta thunberg released a video saying more needs to be done to combat the climate crisis. >> my name igreta thunberg. i am inviting you to be a part of the solution. five yrs ago, wod leaders sied the pis agreement and they promised to keep the global average temperature rise 12 low two deees celsiuand pursue 1.5 degrees to safeguard future ling conditions. since then, a lot has happened. stilltion needed is nowhere in sight. the gap between what we neeto do and what is actually being ne is widening by theinute. amy: climate activist greta thunberg speaking in video she released ahead of saturday's virtual claimant assignment to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2015 paris climate accord. turns 18 on january 3. when we come back, who gets the vaccine as the first shipments of the federally approved covid-19 vaccine arrived today across united states, we will speak with dr. camara phyllis jones about why communities of given priority access to the vaccine. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracy

years after the landmark paris climate accord, we hear from 17-year-old swedish climate activist greta thunbergy more drastiti

but isn't the point —— is that the point that greta thunberg makes that aid in that she says look howe it as response to climate change. we see itasa response to climate change. we see it as a long—term challenge. response to climate change. we see it as a long—term challengem response to climate change. we see it as a long-term challenge. it is ina it as a long-term challenge. it is in a sense a long—term challenge because so much more needs to be done to tackle the problem of climate change and i think there's another way to look at this time it's really important that we have activists like greta holding our feet to the fire and sing at a world community you guys need to do more but that another way of looking at that which is this year has seen the european union commit to a net zero approach and we have seen china commit toa approach and we have seen china commit to a net zero pledge and we have seen america commits to a net zero pledge, japan, south korea, hundred and ten other countries all say they want to reduce carbon emissions to net zero around the middle of the century. t

a journalist recently talked to you and made a comparison between you and greta thunberg and said it'se to be truth tellers above all else, and are not interested in social convention or pragmatic approaches to problems, but just want to drill down to what they see as the truth without artifice. i think if you were to ask me, and i always have to answer honestly, "what had hurt me most in my life?" it wouldn't be the teeth that i've had removed or the cartilage that i've ripped up. it would be the lies that i've been told by other people. you know, lying is not something which people, perhaps like greta and i, are entirely comfortable with. it's not that we can't understand other people lying, we learned to understand them lying. it's not that we can't to lie ourselves — we do tell lies, it's part and parcel part of the way humans interact, lying. but i think that the truth, for me, as i see it and know it, and understand it at that point in time has to out. but do you therefore see most of the rest of us as serially dishonest, both to each other and ourselves? i can be frequently disa

the good news is that the queen nevertheless kicked greta thunberg. god bless her. political leaders have been using it as a pretext for suspending fundamental american rights like freedom of religion and indeed freedom of movement. to make matters worse, the centralization of wealth and power and a handful of corporations that control their access to information could be a recipe for an actual authoritarian takeover in america. that's what glenn greenwald argued in a recent essay, and he joins us. you're basically on it because you ran afoul of the publication you helped found. my sense is that this thing is actually accelerating very fast. it's a couple of months ago, supposed to be shocked by what big tech did to "the new york post" hunter biden story and now they're doing it to someone almost every day. >> that's how censorship powers were, you single out a particularly egregious case that you hope people can rally around and whether it's alex jones, and then suddenly you have a president that says it is now permissible to censor and suppress opinions that peopl

climate activist greta thunberg joins us. >>> the moment arrived and i was very fortunate to be the person to receive this honor. >> the catholic urch's first african-american cardinal. will ton gregory talks about this historic moment. plus -- >> as bad as we thought i could get in one of the richest countries inhehe world. >> horrible

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