Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg announced that she will no longer be able to skip classes to protest against climate change as she is graduating from high school. Thunberg, who started staging Friday protests outside the Swedish parliament building during school hours in 2018, inspired teenagers globally to join the international student movement called Fridays for Future. While Thunberg acknowledged that her future Friday activities won’t technically be school striking, she remains committed to continuing her protests, saying that “the fight has only just begun.” Thunberg has been a vocal advocate for climate action, warning that we are rapidly approaching potential ecological and climatic tipping points beyond our control. As a teenager, Thunberg spoke to political and business leaders at U.N. conferences and the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, was named Time magazine’s youngest Person of the Year in 2019, and received several nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. For her final school strike outside parliament, Thunberg posed with a Swedish-language sign while wearing the cap that high school graduates typically wear in Sweden. American singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith joined the demonstration and expressed her gratitude and congratulations to Thunberg for her commitment to environmental activism. Thunberg has urged the media to focus on other young activists, and the Fridays for Future movement planned to protest outside U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, on Friday to urge governments to do more to curb global warming.
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