By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 5 hours ago, updated 2 hours ago
Greta Thunberg carries a sign that reads ‘School strike for the climate’ outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, Sweden June 9, 2023. STAFF/ Portal
The Swedish climate activist, who has just graduated from high school, nevertheless states that she will continue to demonstrate on Fridays.
Young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has just graduated, announced on Friday June 9 that she would end her symbolic school strike, which began in 2018, when her school days in Sweden ended.
“Today I am doing my Abitur, which means that I could no longer take part in the school climate strike. So this is my last school strike,” the 20-year-old Swede announced on Twitter. However, the initiator of the Fridays for Future movement intends to take part in other forms of demonstration on Fridays, she says.
I will continue to demonstrate on Fridays.
Greta Thunberg, Swedish climate activist
“I will continue to demonstrate on Fridays, although technically it will no longer be a ‘school strike,'” she said. Greta Thunberg, who was anonymous at the time, was just 15 when she sat outside the Swedish Parliament for the first time on a Friday in August 2018, holding up her “School strike for the climate” sign.
In a few months, young people from Berlin to Sydney, from San Francisco to Johannesburg followed, and the Fridays for Future movement was born. “When I started the strike in 2018, I never imagined that it would lead to anything,” the activist said on Friday. “In 2019, millions of young people were out of school” “because of the climate” and “flooded the streets in more than 180 countries,” she recalls.
“Unprecedented Betrayal”
But Greta Thunberg, who admitted last November that she “wanted to pass the megaphone on to others,” won’t give up her apron, affirming that the “fight has only just begun.” “We who can express ourselves have a duty to do so,” she insists. Beyond her climate strikes, the young activist regularly attacks politicians and governments for their alleged inaction on climate issues.
At the end of March, she castigated the “unprecedented betrayal” of the heads of state and government after the publication of the latest summary by the IPCC, the group of UN experts. According to the IPCC, global warming will reach 1.5°C in 2030-2035 compared to the pre-industrial era, while the average temperature on Earth has already risen by almost 1.2°C.
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