How can one small young girl, Greta Thunberg, tower over the world leaders? These are the people who direct our paths for the next decades and yet at the COP26 they spoke loudly but did little and they need to be called out for that as they were by Greta.

There is no reason why the message from one individual cannot be the right message and it seems that her message is the right one. We all need to work to improve the environment before we get a once in a century event every week as seems to be happening with the fires and floods that are happening in some many places. If I hear of a plague of locusts I am going to panic.

Maybe it’s time for the world’s leaders to listen to even one young voice as they are the ones that are going to be living in the world that these leaders leave us long after they are gone.

Keep up the good work, Greta.

Dennis Fitzgerald — Melbourne, Australia