After four years as an environmental star and climate champion, Greta Thunberg had announced his retirement from the scene. A relay handover that never happened, on the contrary: what has been recorded in recent days confirms that the Swede does not seem ready to hang up the signs. After the quite theatrical demonstrations in Germany – including arrests in favor of the camera – the 20-year-old arrived at the Economic Forum davos stigmatize the big names in energy.
The return of Greta
“Stop opening new oil, gas and coal production sites immediately and stop blocking the transition to clean energy,” Greta appealed to large energy companies. Flanked by Vanessa Nakate, Helena Gualinga and Luisa Neubauer, the climate influencer accused top energy managers of “knowing for decades that fossil fuels are causing catastrophic climate change”: “They have misled politicians and the public, and if they don’t take the direction change, they are called upon to meet their responsibilities with legal action”.
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The line is always the same, ecological populism, which sees man as the embodiment of absolute evil. The presence in Davos is far from withdrawing from the scene. Especially when we consider what has happened in Germany in the last few days. The environmental protection media phenomenon has chosen to show its big face at the protests in Lützerath in North Rhine-Westphalia, the German village destined for a coal mining area owned by energy group Rwe.
Greta led the “gretti” on the edge of the Garzweiler quarry and forced the police to intervene: the Swede was carried away by three officers with the weight. The photographers present at the demonstration immortalized the smiling expression of the young woman, who a few hours later denounced the alleged “scandalous violence” of the German police.
In short, Greta has no intention of stepping aside. Or at least for now. Perhaps the strategy will change – for example, it could target China, India and Russia directly, the world’s top three polluters. Or maybe none of that: the limelight and starry reception reserved by the European institutions is a juicy incentive.