We failed the young on climate change – now we must listen to them | Jonathan Freedland

Greta Thunberg led the way. Children skipping school to protest against global warming is an indictment of adult complacencySuch is the upside-down, topsy-turvy state of our world, that the children are now the adults and the adults are the children. In Westminster, our supposed leaders – men and women of mature vintage – keep stamping their feet and demanding what no one can give them.They insist they should be allowed to gobble up all the birthday cake and still have cake left to e