The general public had discovered it in 2018, with its sign "School strike for the climate". Fresh from high school, the young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg announced Friday that she was ending her emblematic strike at school, with the end of her schooling in Sweden.
"Today, I'm finishing high school, which means I wouldn't be able to do the school strike for the climate. So this is my last school strike," the 20-year-old Swede announced on Twitter.
School strike week 251. Today, I graduate from school, which means I'll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
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— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) June 9, 2023
The initiator of the Fridays for Future movement, however, intends to participate in other forms of demonstrations on Fridays, she says. "I will continue to protest on Fridays, even though technically it will no longer be a school strike," she said.
The "Fridays for Future" movement
At the time anonymous, Greta Thunberg was only 15 years old when she first sat in front of the Swedish Parliament on a Friday in August 2018, with her sign "School strike for climate". 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 striking in 2018, I could never have imagined that this would lead to anything," the activist said Friday.
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"In 2019, millions of young people" did not go to school "for the climate" and "flooded the streets in more than 180 countries," she said.
"Betrayal" of leaders
But Greta Thunberg, who had confided last November to want to "pass the megaphone to others", does not intend to return her apron and ensures that the "fight has just begun". "We who can speak have a duty to do so," she insists.
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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 group of experts of the UN.
According to the IPCC, global warming will reach 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era from the years 2030-2035, while the global temperature has already risen by nearly 1.2 ° C on average.
