“Today I’m finishing my A-levels, which means that I can no longer go on the school strike for the climate,” announced the young Swede.
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Posted on 09/06/2023 18:48 Updated on 09/06/2023 19:21
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Greta Thunberg, November 19, 2021, in Stockholm (Sweden). (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP)
Young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, fresh out of high school, announced Friday (June 9) that she was ending her iconic school strike that began in 2018. I will no longer be able to take part in the school strike for the climate. So “This is my last school strike,” the 20-year-old Swede announced on Twitter. “I will continue to demonstrate on Fridays, although technically it will no longer be a ‘school strike,'” she said without giving further details.
“When I started the strike in 2018, I never imagined that it would lead to anything,” said the environmental activist. Greta Thunberg, who was anonymous at the time, was just 15 years old when she first sat outside the Swedish parliament on a Friday in August 2018 with 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.
“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. In 2019, the young Swede was also named Personality of the Year by the influential Time Magazine. But Greta Thunberg, who confided in November 2022 that she wanted to “pass the megaphone on to others”, does not want to give up her apron and assures that the “fight has only just begun”. “We who can express ourselves have a duty to do so,” she insists.
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