London — Teenage climate-change activist Greta Thunberg said on Monday that talking to US President Donald Trump at a UN summit on global warming would have been a waste of time as he would not have paid any attention.

In an interview with BBC radio’s Today programme, for which she was the guest editor on Monday, Thunberg also said she regarded personal attacks on her as funny and that she hoped to go back to having a normal life...

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