Greta Thunberg is ready to pass the megaphone to others: “The world needs new perspectives”

Four years after the start of his “school strike for the climate” (Skolstrejk för klimatet), Greta Thunberg may soon hand the microphone over to other frontline activists in of Climate Change. “We must listen to the accounts and experiences of the people most affected by the climate crisis. It’s time to hand over the megaphone to those who really have stories to tell,” he said in an interview with the Swedish news agency TT. According to the 19-year-old, world now needs “new perspectives”.

For Greta Thunberg the climate crisis is already having “Devastating consequences about people’s lives and “that’s why it becomes even more hypocritical when people in Sweden, for example, say that we have time to adapt and we don’t have to fear what will happen in the future”.

The activist had already informed that he will not be at COP27 defining the summit, a forum for “green wash”, after calling last year’s event in Glasgow “blah blah blah”

“Some of the things that world leaders and heads of state say when the microphone is off are hard to believe when you tell them,” he said.

There the lack of knowledge of the most powerful people on the planet is shocking.”

And then he recalled a few lines: “Like, ‘If I had known what we agreed to when we signed the Paris agreement, I would never have signed it, or ‘You guys are more knowledgeable in this area than I am’.”

Since 2018, the personal strike that Greta carried out in front of the Swedish parliament has turned into a great global movement that involved millions of young people and sparked a broad debate about the dangers of climate change.

The young woman is in her final year of high school in Stockholm and said that she has not yet decided what she will do after graduating from high school. “Let’s see. If I had to choose today, I would choose to continue my studies. Preferably something that has to do with social problems.”