“My Name is Greta Thunberg. I’m 15 years old and I come from Sweden.“ The school schwänzerin presents itself even today. As if she had not become in the world a certain notoriety, as the face of a Generation of adults are stealing the future, because you will do nothing against climate change. At least that’s the view of Thunberg. She talks to the delegates at the UN climate change conference in Katowice to the Conscience: “Maybe my children will ask me once to you. Maybe you will want to know why you have done nothing, when the time was right,“ she says in front of the house.
It is this clear language, the Greta has worn Thunberg to the conference of the United Nations. There, you didn’t fly, of course, but with her father in the car. It all started a few months ago, as in Sweden up for election. Thunberg continued, instead of going to school, every day in front of Parliament in Stockholm and called for more climate protection. In the meantime, she still comes every Friday.
of Course she breaks the rules, because it is compulsory in Sweden. However, the logic with which Thunberg your Protest justified, is ground: “Because you adults are not interested in you for my future, I will not observe your rules,” your flight leaves.
“An existential threat”
Thunberg referred to as “climate radicals”, as she writes on her Twitter profile. There is also that she has Asperger’s syndrome. This light Form of autism is associated with low ability to recognize the facial expression of other people, or even non-verbal signals.
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in fact, Greta Thun Berg’s Facial expression is unmoving, and she smiles. This may also be due to the serious subject, which she has made her own. “We are facing an existential threat. We are in the midst of extinction the sixth mass with up to 200 species are wiped out every day,“ she says at the climate conference in a smaller circle, at a Meeting with UN Secretary-General, António Guterres.
Such sentences speaks to Greta Thunberg with the gentle voice of a young girl, but the long breaks, show in-between: you know what she says and she wants to be understood. At the end of her speech, she behaves but age and looks shyly to the ground, while UN Secretary-General António Guterres looks at you in a friendly way.
call for a school strike
their new popularity has reflected Thunberg already. “I don’t care. I care about climate justice and the planet,“ she says. She insists that the issue of justice is enshrined in the Paris agreements. So far, it had more to do with the justice between industrial and developing countries. Also, the fair compensation for the people that still have their Livelihood in the fossil fuel industry, more and more support. But Greta Thunberg has now raised the issue of intergenerational justice on the agenda.
The great response that you experienced, of course, has to do with the fact that the time is ripe for it. The consequences of climate change can be seen already today so clearly that students are worldwide followed Thun Berg’s call for a school strike on Friday. It would be too much to say that it would be a mass movement. The pressure is not as high as that of the yellow the West, in France, have built. “But the mobilization of young people is gaining momentum,” said Laurence Tubiana, Head of the European Climate Foundation, yesterday at the climate change conference.
representatives of environmental organizations are grateful that there is someone like Greta Thunberg. “You have given us a lesson,” says Yamide Dagnet from the World Resources Institute. “You inspired us and I hope that the politicians listen to you. Wherein: Actually, you should do not need a young girl who reminds them of their responsibility.“
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When Greta Thunberg Sweden returns, she wants to put their strike on each case.
