With a megaphone in her hand and activists from Fridays for Future at her side, Thunberg protests against the burning of fossil fuels – but also against Sweden’s conservative government.
At a protest march in the Swedish capital Stockholm, thousands of people demanded more climate justice and a rapid exit from coal, oil and gas. The participants in the demonstration, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and other mostly young people, marched today from a square within sight of the Swedish Parliament to the south of the city. Thunberg and other colleagues spoke in the afternoon of around 5,000 participants; the police did not give their own estimate until then.
“We are unstoppable, another world is possible!” (We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!) Thunberg wrote about the protest on the online platform X. Footage showed the 20-year-old cheerfully shouting into a megaphone during the march.
At the front of the demonstration, activists from the climate movement Fridays for Future held a large banner with the inscription “People Not Profit” in their hands. The protest was directed against the burning of fossil fuels, but also against the country’s conservative government.
“We need a fundamental change in our political and economic systems to enable climate justice,” the march organizers demanded on Facebook. Climate justice is, among other things, about rich countries with historically high CO2 emissions taking greater responsibility in solving the climate crisis and better supporting the states and regions of the world that contribute the least to climate change but are already heavily affected by its consequences are.
Source: Stern
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