Was Greta Thunberg right to berate the UN?

AM I the only person to find Greta Thunberg a quite impertinent and insulting young girl? The manner and tone when she was addressing the members of the United Nations summit left a great deal to be desired. She needs to understand that you do not make friends and influence people by way of insults and threats. Earlier generations, including my own, may have made some mistakes, but have done a tremendous amount of good in the world in many ways. Perhaps she should first preach to her own generation. They could give up their mobile phones, empty bedrooms of all technology which eats up electricity, and walk to school instead of going by car. And finally, to the audience who reluctantly afforded her a ripple of applause — she is not Mother Teresa and never will be. In a few years’ time, everyone will be saying: ‘Greta who?’

catHerine WalKer, brixham, devon.

PEOPLE who treat Greta Thunberg as though she’s a lone voice in the wilderness and try to smear her might be interested to know she isn’t alone and stands for many of us: she is a public figure whose views are endorsed and echoed by millions — not least 97 per cent of the world’s leading climate scientists. If anyone requires help, it’s the deranged politicians, pundits and figureheads for multi-nationals who, to line their own pockets, hit back and poke fun at the messenger, but sit back and watch the wholesale destruction of the world’s remaining rainforests. That’s insanity. It’s those whose response to deafening alarm bells from scientists warning of imminent climate meltdown is to do nothing and continue as we are. That’s insanity. As Greta says, ‘I don’t want to believe that you are evil’, but to do nothing is insane.

DAVE DEGEN, Watford.