Meet the 15-year-old Swedish girl on strike from school for the climate
https://www.thelocal.se/20180824/meet-the-15-year-old-swedish-girl-on-strike-from-school-for-the-climate
Source: By Catherine Edwards, The Local.
Excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg describes herself as a "climate radical" and is protesting outside Sweden's parliament every day until the September election, refusing to attend school and calling on politicians to take climate issues seriously. ...Greta said she learned about the effects of climate change mostly at home, and began to get engaged in environmental issues from the age of 11 or 12. ..."I have gone to climate demonstrations and things like that before, but this is the first time I've organized something myself," the 15-year-old adds. ...The strike has been taking place every schoolday since term began, roughly between the hours of 8.30 and 3.30pm. This means missing three weeks of school in total, so is Greta worried about missing out on the start of the year? "A little bit, but I have my books with me," she explains, adding that she is making sure to keep up with what her classmates are working on....
Source: By Catherine Edwards, The Local.
Excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunberg describes herself as a "climate radical" and is protesting outside Sweden's parliament every day until the September election, refusing to attend school and calling on politicians to take climate issues seriously. ...Greta said she learned about the effects of climate change mostly at home, and began to get engaged in environmental issues from the age of 11 or 12. ..."I have gone to climate demonstrations and things like that before, but this is the first time I've organized something myself," the 15-year-old adds. ...The strike has been taking place every schoolday since term began, roughly between the hours of 8.30 and 3.30pm. This means missing three weeks of school in total, so is Greta worried about missing out on the start of the year? "A little bit, but I have my books with me," she explains, adding that she is making sure to keep up with what her classmates are working on....