Greta Thunberg Graduates High School and Continues Climate Protest Movement

2023-06-09 16:22:44

Stockholm

Greta Thunberg skips school for the last time for the climate

The 20-year-old Swede is finishing school and therefore skipped school for the last time to draw attention to climate change. But that is not the end of the protests.

published9. June 2023, 18:22

Now the “school strike for the climate” is over following almost five years: climate activist Greta Thunberg is leaving school and with it her time as the most famous truant in the world.

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• Greta Thunberg completes high school and thus her time at school.

• This also ended her weekly school strikes, which made her world famous.

• In 2018, she started the protests when she was just 15 years old.

The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg graduated from high school and therefore ends their weekly school strikes. She can no longer skip classes to protest in front of the Swedish parliament because she no longer goes to school, Thunberg wrote on Twitter on Friday. She wants to continue protesting on Fridays but still. “The fight has only just begun.”

Thunberg received prominent support during her last “school strike for the climate”. Musician Patti Smith, who was in Stockholm for a concert, came to the demo. Smith told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper that she had tears in her eyes when she met Thunberg. On Twitter, the singer acknowledged the 20-year-old Swede’s fight for the climate and congratulated her on graduating from school. Thunberg wore the hat that is customary for graduation in Sweden on Friday.

“School strike for the climate” began in 2018

In August 2018, at the age of just 15, Thunberg sat alone in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm to protest once morest what she saw as a completely inadequate climate policy in her country. The 20-year-old hit a nerve with younger people in particular: Thunberg got schoolchildren all over the world to take to the streets for climate protests on Fridays instead of going to school.

She became world famous with her protest and her haunting words. Thunberg traveled by yacht to a climate summit in New York, met personalities such as former US President Barack Obama and Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio.

Greta Thunberg wants to continue protesting every Friday

“When I started striking in 2018, I never expected it to lead to anything,” Thunberg said. Suddenly, their protest turned into a global movement that was growing every day. In 2019, millions of children and young people in over 180 countries went to demonstrations instead of to school. Then you had to find new forms of protest in the corona pandemic, but over time you went back onto the streets.

“A lot has changed since we started, and yet we still have much more to go,” wrote Thunberg. The world is still moving in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice marginalized and climate-affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. This brings us closer to possible ecological and climatic tipping points beyond human control.

Thunberg can now start studying following graduating from high school – but the exact plans of the young Swede are not yet publicly known. In any case, her “school strike for the climate” is over following 251 weeks – but not with the protest itself: she will continue to protest on Fridays, it’s just not an actual “school strike” anymore, she tweeted.

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