2023-06-09 10:24:40
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has finished school, which also has an impact on her “school strike for the climate” that has been going on for almost five years.
“Today I’m graduating from school, which means I can no longer go on a school strike for the climate,” wrote the 20-year-old Swede on Twitter on Friday. “That will be the last school strike for me.”
But she will continue to protest on Fridays – it’s just not an actual “school strike” anymore. “We simply have no choice but to do whatever we can. The fight has only just begun.”
As a result, people in dozens of countries took to the streets for more climate protection, and schoolchildren mostly skipped school on Fridays to take part in demonstrations.
“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 we still have a lot to go on,” 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.
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