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Greta Thunberg Has Reacted To Australia’s Ongoing Bushfires

As Scott Morrison defends his government's response
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has turned her attention to Australia’s current climate crisis, calling for politicians to finally take action. 

Watch Below: Greta Thunberg Delivers Powerful Speech 

The 16-year-old weighed in on the current bushfires by retweeting a 9News Sydney video to her 3.7 million followers. 

“Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible?” she wrote. “Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the

Thunberg finished, “That’s what has to change. Now.”

Her tweet has received more than 47,000 comments and 148,000 likes. 

The comments come after Scott Morrison defended his government’s response to the bushfire crisis despite major backlash over political inaction and his recent family holiday to Hawaii. 

The Prime Minister insists that ending coal exports would merely risk Australian jobs and setting stricter goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be “reckless”. He said such action would have “no meaningful impact on the global climate”.

Mr Morrison did, however, acknowledge the need for real action on climate change across all state and federal levels.

“There is no disagreement and there has not been any denial of this critical factor, either by the federal government or any state or territory government,” he wrote in The Daily Telegraph“But to suggest that increasing Australia’s climate targets would have prevented these fires or extreme weather events, in Australia or anywhere else, is simply false.”

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has turned her attention to Australia’s current climate crisis, calling for politicians to finally take action. 

Watch Below: Greta Thunberg Delivers Powerful Speech 

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has turned her attention to Australia’s current climate crisis, calling for politicians to finally take action. 

Watch Below: Greta Thunberg Delivers Powerful Speech 

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