Greta Thunberg will not be at Cop27. This was announced by the activist herself, who, after participating in last year’s UN climate conference in Glasgow and a few days earlier in preCop26 in Milan, she decided that this time her absence would speak for her. Tired of the environmentalist façade displayed by world leaders who sign agreements and pledge commitments for institutional appointments, but then postpone the issue of ecological transition to an increasingly distant future, the 19-year-old branded Sharm el-Sheikh. summit as a forum for green money laundering, which he will not trust.
But that’s not all. Four years after starting her “School Strike for Climate”, a Swedish girl with pigtails was outraged at the UN climate summit in New York with the famous phrase “How dare you?” How dare you look away and then come here and say you’ve done enough she says she is ready to pass the baton to those on the front lines of climate change, those who are experiencing it firsthand and can speak up to raise public awareness.. They are women first and foremost, they are young and have already done a lot for the planet with their dedication: we have told some of their stories here.
If at first they were called to listen to science, now give voice to the most vulnerable. “The time has come to give the voice to those who really have something to say,” he told the Swedish news agency TT. A decision that will still see her committed to the planet, but with a different role, more behind the scenes, even if it can be assumed that her Fridays for the future will not stop. The opposite would be strange for a young woman who has found “friends, fun and meaning in life” in activism, as she recounts in her recently published book, titled climate book.
Greta is now 19 years old, four of which she has spent as an environmental activist, a role through which she has been able to reach millions of young people by organizing a public debate about the dangers of climate change.. Along with his green fights, he continues his studies in the last year of high school in Stockholm. She has not yet decided what she will do next, but the idea will be to continue her studies at the university: “It is desirable to have something related to social problems, we’ll see,” the girl says laconically, always reluctant to talk about herself and more focused . on the future of the planet than on their own. Meanwhile in Egypt, the COP27 work continues until November 18, the Pyramid of Khafre lights up for this event: spectacular plays of light project the words “We must act now”, we need to act now, and then #together for realization. The slogan is perfect, who knows if deeds will follow the words this time.
Source: Elle