AS much as we would like climate change to go away, it will not.

However it seems that world leaders are not ready to accept it no matter how many times Greta Thunberg’s scathing speeches go viral.

Although the Swedish 16-year-old is admirable, forthright and highly intelligent, she is still not getting through to the people who are in the only position to change the fate of the planet, even if we all wish there was more we could do ourselves.

Greta addressed the leaders yesterday saying: “People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing.

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.”

Greta, who kickstarted the global School Strike movement, added: “How dare you – you have stolen my dreams and my childhood.”

After this powerful, emotive speech on Monday at the United Nations Summit, it appears the mass movement’s entire message has gone right over Donald Trump’s head.

He is still finding climate change a good laugh, tweeting sarcastically: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see.”

I heard someone comment the other day that it is ridiculous that the only accepted way to measure a country’s success is its GDP. It speaks volumes about the world. And the president’s ludicrous denial of climate change is emulating the madness of flat earth conspiracists.

I don’t know what the answers to climate change are, but one thing I do have to admit is that ordinary people are relatively limited in their ability to act on it. Many of us need our cars to get to work and, until there is another way, most of us will simply have to keep using this mode of transport. And this is why the problem is so difficult to tackle, because it lies within such a necessary and unavoidable daily loop in our lives.

If the solution is electric cars then maybe these should be invested in.