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“Even though we have shown time and time again that we are millions around the world demanding change, the world is not moving in the right direction,” the 20-year-old wrote on social media yesterday.
The emission of climate-damaging gases continues to rise, and the planetary tipping points are approaching faster than previously expected. “We urgently need radical climate protection to save what can still be saved and to limit as far as possible the catastrophic effects of the climate crisis that people are already experiencing,” said the Swede. The pressure of the climate movement Fridays for Future is needed. “We must not allow those in power to sacrifice people and the planet for profit and greed.”
From schoolgirl to icon
Thunberg first sat down in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm on August 20, 2018, when he was 15 at the time, to protest for more climate protection. Within a few months, the international climate movement Fridays for Future developed from their “school strike for the climate” in numerous countries. Thunberg himself graduated from school this year, but continues to protest for the climate on Fridays – now for the 261st week in a row.
Source: Nachrichten
