<div dir="ltr"><div>Those who have followed Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's visit to the USA in 2019, which eventually would include a trip to Chile for the COP25 climate change conference, till Chile cancelled hosting COP25 due to great national turmoil, will recall she sailed across the big pond west to New York on the Malizia II racing yacht.  Fast and not built for luxury, there was no "toilet."  Thunberg descried it was like "camping on a roller coaster."</div><div><br></div><div>Now Madrid, Spain will host COP25 2-13 December, 2019.  Thus Thunberg needed transportation.  Once again, she is now sailing.... back to Europe!  This time with a toilet.</div><div><br></div><div>Thunberg avoids plane flight because of the high greenhouse gas emissions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thunberg placed a request on Twitter, and an Australian couple, with a baby, who sail a catamaran, whatever that exactly is, offered her a ride!</div><div><br></div><div>WOW!  </div><div><br></div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett  <br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Excerpt from article below:</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">November isn't exactly prime sailing season in the North Atlantic, but up popped <a href="https://twitter.com/Sailing_LaVaga/status/1191442943581859848" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">a reply</a> from an Australian man named Riley Whitelum: "Greta it's Riley here from Sailing La Vagabonde. If you get in contact with me I'm sure we could organise something."</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">Turns out, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/style/boat-life-youtube.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">Whitelum and Elayna Carausu</a> have a catamaran, a baby and a million subscribers following their #boatlife on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww/featured" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">YouTube</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">For the next few weeks, the world's most famous climate activist will be a part of it.</font></p></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div><br></div>Greta Thunberg Sets Sail For Home — And The U.N. Climate Conference<div>Nov. 13, 2019</div><div><br></div><div>Laurel Wamsley</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/13/778862907/greta-thunberg-sets-sail-for-home-and-the-u-n-climate-conference">https://www.npr.org/2019/11/13/778862907/greta-thunberg-sets-sail-for-home-and-the-u-n-climate-conference</a>  <br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">Two and a half months after she arrived in New York Harbor, Greta Thunberg set sail back to Europe.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">The 16-year-old Swede's visit to the U.S. was a barnstorming tour for our time: She had <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/23/763389015/this-is-all-wrong-greta-thunberg-tells-world-leaders-at-u-n-climate-session" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">demanded of world leaders</a> at the United Nations, "You all come to us young people for hope. How dare you?" She had <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/762629200/mass-protests-in-australia-kick-off-global-climate-strike-ahead-of-u-n-summit" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">marched</a> alongside millions in the Global Climate Strike. She had rallied with thousands of fellow students in places <a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/thousands-rally-iowa-city-climate-activist-greta-thunberg#stream/0" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">like Iowa City</a>. She had stood with Native American activists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/greta-thunberg-standing-rock-north-south-dakota-nobel-peace-prize" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">at Standing Rock</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">And she experienced life in the U.S., a country she says plays an "incredibly important" role in fighting climate change.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">"You are such a big country," she <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/09/13/760538254/greta-thunberg-to-u-s-you-have-a-moral-responsibility-on-climate-change" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">told NPR</a> in September. "In Sweden, when we demand politicians to do something, they say, 'It doesn't matter what we do — because just look at the U.S.'</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">"I think you have an enormous responsibility" to lead climate efforts, she added. "You have a moral responsibility to do that."</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">With her steely gaze and unwavering push to make the world's adults take the necessary steps to avert further climate disaster, Thunberg has touched off a global movement with young people at the forefront.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">She is now both celebrity and oracle, ascending to worldwide notice since her first "school strike for climate" in August 2018, when she protested outside Sweden's parliament instead of going to class.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">She had intended to make her way to Chile for the next round of U.N. climate talks, but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/31/774862059/as-protests-persist-chiles-president-cancels-two-major-international-summits" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">unrest there</a> spurred the <a href="https://www.cop25.cl/#/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">COP25</a> annual climate conference to move from Santiago to Madrid.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">But she couldn't just get a different flight: Thunberg won't fly, because of air travel's outsize emissions. She needed to find a boat going her way.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">She put out <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1190290034131267591" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">a request on Twitter</a>: "It turns out I've traveled half around the world, the wrong way:) Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful."</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">November isn't exactly prime sailing season in the North Atlantic, but up popped <a href="https://twitter.com/Sailing_LaVaga/status/1191442943581859848" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">a reply</a> from an Australian man named Riley Whitelum: "Greta it's Riley here from Sailing La Vagabonde. If you get in contact with me I'm sure we could organise something."</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">Turns out, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/style/boat-life-youtube.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">Whitelum and Elayna Carausu</a> have a catamaran, a baby and a million subscribers following their #boatlife on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdQjaSoLjIzFnWsDQOv4ww/featured" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">YouTube</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">For the next few weeks, the world's most famous climate activist will be a part of it.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">La Vagabonde is outfitted with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRXWGEGd3mM" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">solar panels and hydro-generators</a>, so it has a minimal carbon footprint. Thunberg had sailed from Europe to New York on a boat, though unlike that vessel, this catamaran has a toilet.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">The voyage is expected to take two to four weeks, and Thunberg hopes to reach Spain in time for the climate conference taking place Dec. 2 to 13. The boat's location can be <a href="https://sailing-lavagabonde.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">tracked online</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">As the catamaran set sail Wednesday morning from Hampton, Va., temperatures were in the 30s, and Thunberg and her fellow sailors — including her father, who traveled with her — were bundled against the cold.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">Thunberg showed her typical aplomb before taking to the high seas.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">"I'm looking forward to it," she told the AP, "just to be able to get away and recap everything and to just be disconnected."</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">She had one more message for Americans: Vote.</font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.17647em;padding:0px 15px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.70588;font-family:Georgia,serif;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:680px;color:rgb(51,51,51);float:none;width:auto"><font size="4">"We must realize this is a crisis, and we must do what we can now to spread awareness about this and to put pressure on the people in power," she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/12/greta-thunberg-climate-crisis-message-vote" style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,118,184);text-decoration-line:none">told </a><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Guardian</em>. "The U.S. has an election coming up soon, and it's very important that for everyone who can vote, vote."</font></p></div></div>