A 15-year old Swedish girl is protesting global warming by engaging in a school strike for climate action and refusing to attend her classes. Greta Thunberg declared that it was pointless to attend her classes due to the impending “climate crisis.”

“Some people say that we should be in school instead, but why should we be studying for a future that’s soon to be no more? And when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future?” Thunberg declared in a September 16, 2018 video statement.

Thunberg added: “And what is the point of learning facts within the school system when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly means nothing to our politicians and our society?”

She warned that “if everyone lived as we do [in Sweden] we would need 4.2 planet Earths per year” and she urged that we need to “start living within the planetary boundaries.”

Her school “climate protest” has caught the attention of the BBC, UK Guardian, Greenpeace, and many other organizations as the student seeks to expand her efforts. “We urge everyone to do the same wherever you are, to sit outside your parliament’s local government building until your nation is on the pathway to a below 2ﾟ[temperature] warming targets.”

As of September 28, 2018, Thunberg “continues her school strike for climate action. Opposite the Swedish parliament building in Stockholm.”

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Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg describes herself as a “climate radical”



Background:

Greta Thunberg: ‘Our lives are in your hands’ – ‘This is my cry for help’