Irish Examiner view: Playing our part in climate action

 Greta Thunberg has done more in three short years than most people will do in a lifetime.

It is hard to believe that Greta Thunberg, one of the world’s best-known teenagers, has just turned 18. She officially reached adulthood yesterday, although her maturity has been apparent since she staged a lone school strike outside the Swedish parliament aged just 15.

Since then, she has inspired some 4m young people to join in climate strikes in the Fridays for the Future movement. She has addressed the United Nations on climate change, warded off the personal jibes of world leaders such as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and spoken of her Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis as a “superpower”.