Greta Thunberg believes that the world has passed a “social tipping point” in an interview broadcast on Saturday on BBC News, referring in particular to the movement “Black Lives Matter” (Editor's note) or global warming.
"It's always the fight for justice," said the 17-year-old climate activist about the movement that followed the death of George Floyd, a black American killed by police in the United States.
“It looks like we have passed a kind of social tipping point, where people are starting to realize that we cannot keep looking away […], she points out. We cannot look away from what our society has ignored for so long, whether it is equality, justice or sustainable development ”.
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Greta Thunberg, who has become a spokesperson and a symbol of the youth movement in the fight against global warming, nevertheless believes that "the ecological and climatic crisis cannot be resolved with current political and economic systems". "It is not an opinion, it is a fact," she said.
"A new dimension"
In his view, the only positive thing that could emerge from the new coronavirus crisis would be the way in which the global crises are managed. "It shows that during a crisis, you act, and you act with the necessary strength," she notes.
The teenager developed the same idea in an interview on Swedish public radio on Saturday, saying that the pandemic had opened "a new dimension". "We suddenly act at the necessary level," she says.
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Since mid-March, Greta Thunberg, instigator of the "school school strikes for the climate", calls to carry the movement on line, putting forward the recommendations of the health authorities which call to limit the gatherings. Every Friday, she posts a photo of herself and her famous “school strike for the climate” sign on her social networks.
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