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Greta Thunberg: "Converting to a sustainable lifestyle"
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has called for people to stop shopping on the high-turnover shopping day "Black Friday".
"Overconsumption is destroying current and future living conditions and the planet itself," wrote the 17-year-old Swede on Friday in the course of her online climate protest on Twitter and Instagram.
"Don't buy stuff you don't need."
"The climate crisis requires that we switch to a sustainable lifestyle," wrote the newspaper "Aftonbladet" from Thunberg's Swedish homeland.
"It won't help us if large companies do everything they can to drive consumption."
On »Black Friday«, shops and online retailers lure consumers in Germany and many other countries to go shopping with sometimes substantial discounts.
Climate activists criticize the fact that excessive consumption fuels the climate crisis, for example through the production of greenhouse gases and the depletion of the earth's precious resources.
Big protests a year ago
In November 2019, shortly before the World Climate Conference in Madrid, hundreds of thousands of people in Germany and around the world demonstrated for a stronger political commitment to combat climate change.
In Germany alone, according to "Fridays for Future", 630,000 people were on the streets.
There were also protests against excessive consumption because of the parallel bargain day »Black Friday«.
“Stop Black Friday!” Demanded protesters in Copenhagen.
In French cities such as Lyon and Saint-Priest, activists had temporarily blocked the entrances to the online retailer Amazon.
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