After years of fight against political inaction over the consequences of climate change, Greta Thunberg has taken part in her last “school strike” protest as she graduates from school. The protests, which led to hundreds of thousands of young people taking to the street to demand immediate change, are known as Fridays for Future or School Strike for Climate.
Thunberg tweeted: «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. When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything. After striking every day for three weeks, we were a small group of children who decided to continue doing this every Friday. And we did, which is how Fridays for Future was formed».
«Some more people joined – she continued – and quite suddenly this was a global movement growing every day. During 2019, millions of youth striked from school for the climate, flooding the streets in over 180 countries. When the pandemic started, we had to find new ways to protest».
She added: «We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically ‘school striking’. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun».
Thunberg has addressed multiple times world leaders at the United Nation’s climate summits, calling for real and tangible action against the looming environmental catastrophe caused by the large-scale use of fossil fuels.
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