Fresh out of high school, young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg announced on Friday that she was ending her iconic school strike, which began in 2018, with the end of her schooling in Sweden.
“Today I am graduating from high school, which means I will no longer be able to go on the school strike for the climate. So this is my last school strike,” the official tweeted. 20 year old Swede.
The initiator of the Fridays for Future movement, however, intends to participate in other forms of demonstrations on Fridays, she specifies.
"I will continue to demonstrate on Fridays, even though technically it will no longer be a school strike," she said.
Then-unnamed Greta Thunberg was just 15 when she first sat down outside the Swedish parliament on a Friday in August 2018, holding her "School strike for climate" sign.
In a few months, from Berlin to Sydney, from San Francisco to Johannesburg, young people followed suit and the Fridays for Future movement was born.
"When I started to strike in 2018, I could never have imagined that it would lead to anything," the activist said on Friday.
"In 2019, millions of young people" did not go to school "for the climate" and "flooded the streets in more than 180 countries", she recalls.
But Greta Thunberg, who confided last November wanting to "pass the megaphone to others", does not intend to give up her apron and assures that the "fight has only just begun".
"We who can express ourselves have a duty to do so," she insists.
Beyond her climate strikes, the young activist regularly attacks politicians and governments for their supposed inaction on climate issues.
At the end of March, she castigated the "unprecedented betrayal" of the leaders after the publication of the latest summary of the IPCC, the UN group of experts.
According to the IPCC, global warming will reach 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial era from the years 2030-2035, while the temperature of the globe has already risen by nearly 1.2°C on average.
09/06/2023 18:47:29 - Stockholm (AFP) © 2023 AFP
