Greta Thunberg (15) skips school and goes on strike to save the world
Greta can not take it anymore: how carelessly many people deal with the earth, how much the climate suffers, and how much the prospects for the future on our planet are becoming increasingly gloomy.
Therefore, on August 20, she started skipping school and instead demonstrating for the climate every Friday before the Swedish parliament.
We children often do not do what you tell us. We do what you do. And because you guys are craving my future, so do I. My name is Greta, and I'm in ninth grade. And I sprinkle the school for the climate until the day of the election.
In the beginning she was still all alone: a young girl, barely 1.50 meters tall, with two braids and a purple backpack. On her sign stood and stands: "Skolstrejk för klimatet", in German: "School strike for the climate."The quote above is on the leaflets Greta distributed to passers-by.
School strike week 14.
And by the way, do not buy anything today on Black Friday. # Climatestrike #climatstrejk #fridaysforfuture pic.twitter.com/LlA1zQ6Su0
Greta hopes politicians and citizens will finally take climate change seriously. The adults should stop talking and act insteadto change the energy system and their lifestyle from scratch? so that the environment no longer has to suffer among us humans.
On Twitter, she describes herself as "15-year-old climate activist with Asperger"Asperger syndrome is a form of autism, people with this syndrome are often highly intelligent and linguistically very talented." Accordingly, Greta expresses at age 15 very adult.
Greta Thunberg inspires people worldwide to protest
Initially, her teachers wanted to dissuade Greta Thunberg from her protest and get her to go back to school. But Greta was not deterred. For weeks she continued with her strike until the election in Sweden. Since then she has been sitting on Fridays in front of the Reichstag. Meanwhile, her teachers demonstrate with her.
Greta has launched a huge wave of protest: In hundreds of Swedish cities children and adults are moving in front of town halls and striking for the climate.
Gretas is also causing a stir in other countries: further protests are planned in Belgium, France, Finland and Denmark. In Australia, several thousand students chopped off the school and went on strike for the climate. Here is a short video of a strike in Denmark:
check out the crowd! #climatestrike Danish translation "all of them who hopping ... we demand a future!" #fridaysforfuture # schoolstrike4climate pic.twitter.com/gKIPaEOaR4
? Jason Box (@climate_ice) November 30, 2018Greta's parents, who were initially skeptical about her daughter's protests, are now happy to help Greta and help her deal with the huge press frenzy. For a long time, Greta had been sad, almost depressed, because of climate change, her father said, according to the "Spiegel". But now that she can do something about it, she is doing "really well". Opposite the news portal Greta said:
The adults have failed. They say that climate change is a threat to all of us, but then they just keep living as they always have. We have to become active ourselves.
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