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Spoke surprisingly at the Glastonbury Festival in England: climate activist Greta Thunberg
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In a surprise appearance at the famous Glastonbury Festival in England, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg called for more commitment to the climate.
"We're approaching the abyss," said the 19-year-old on Saturday afternoon on the main stage, where ex-Beatle Paul McCartney would later appear.
She urgently advises everyone whose senses have not yet been clouded by greenwashing to assert themselves.
“Don't let us move an inch closer to the abyss.
Because that's where we are now," she said, according to the British news agency PA.
The Swedish initiator of the Fridays for Future movement regularly accuses politics and business of trying to cover up their lack of or too slow action on climate protection with euphonious declarations of intent.
So far, the measures taken by the states are far from sufficient to achieve the agreed Paris climate target of stopping global warming at a maximum of 1.5 degrees.
Climate researchers agree that this is the only way to prevent the most catastrophic consequences of climate change.
Against the background of Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, the climate crisis at the G7 summit in Garmisch-Partenkirchen only plays a subordinate role.
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