Greta Thunberg has finished school Rammstein in Munich: “smack” and “evil looks” – that’s what concertgoers say

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has finished school, which also has implications for her “school strike for the climate” that has been going on for almost five years.

“Today I graduate from school, which means I can no longer go on strike for the climate,” the 20-year-old Swede wrote on Twitter on Friday. “That will be the last school strike for me.”

But she will continue to protest on Friday – it’s just not a real “school strike” anymore. “We just have no choice but to do what we can. The battle has only just begun.”

Thunberg sat alone before the Swedish parliament in Stockholm in August 2018 to demand more climate protection from her country’s politicians. From the lonely protest of the then only 15-year-old girl, the international climate protection movement Fridays for Future developed in a very short time.

As a result, people in dozens of countries took to the streets for more climate protection and schoolchildren mostly skipped school on Fridays to take part in demonstrations.

“When I started striking in 2018, I never expected it to lead to anything,” Thunberg said. Suddenly their protest turned into a global movement that grew every day. In 2019, millions of children and young people in more than 180 countries went to demonstrations instead of school. Then you had to look for new forms of protest in the corona pandemic, but after a while you took to the streets again.

“A lot has changed since we started, and we still have a lot to do,” Thunberg wrote. The world continues to move in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice marginalized and climate-affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. (aeg/sda/dpa)