The treasury secretary's wife said she stands with the climate activist, adding: "I don't have a degree in economics either."
Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, briefly expressed support for climate activist Greta Thunberg on Instagram just days after her husband dismissed the teen as too unqualified to preach.
Mnuchin said the 17-year-old, who urged world leaders to divest from the fossil fuel industry at the World Economic Forum last week, should get an economics degree if she wants to be taken seriously.Actress and producer Louise Linton, who is married to US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, says she stands with @GretaThunbergThis is in response to Mnuchin saying that Thunberg should study economics. pic.twitter.com/W8JFqbWIdd“I stand with Greta on this issue.
My gap year ends in August, but it doesn’t take a college degree in economics to realise that our remaining 1,5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don’t add up. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/1virpuOyYGNobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman also trashed Mnuchin’s understanding of economics, tweeting: “It’s the people insisting that protecting the planet is incompatible with growth who don’t know economics.
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