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How global Wuhaning led to Greta’s goodbye

26 August 2020

1:30 PM

26 August 2020

1:30 PM

World leaders stole her childhood and now coronavirus has stolen her crisis. So there’s nothing left for activist Greta Thunberg but to go back to school.

The teen campaigner, dubbed the Goblin of Doom for her incessant warnings that carbon emissions are about to destroy the earth, has spent the past year circling the globe lecturing world leaders and organising protests.

But the same country that was exhaling a good portion of those emissions suddenly coughed up a flu bug that really did change the environment.

The Chinese flu has now made travel all but impossible.

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