Published 13:10 IST, August 25th 2020
Greta Thunberg delighted to be back in school after gap year, poses for pic with backpack
The 17-year-old Swedish environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg announced the end of her gap year from school Monday, August 24 and said that it feels ‘great’.
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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg anunced end of her gap year from school on August 24 and said that feels ‘great’ to finally join curriculum again. Swedish environmentalist posted an im of herself with a backpack and bicycle on social media but did t mention which city or school she would be attending to continue studies.
Since last school day in 2019, Thunberg has been in a gap year owing to hectic travels across world of 17-year-old. However, she was catching up with her lessons remotely. Inste of starting final years of secondary school, Thunberg h travelled across Atlantic by sailing boat in a bid to highlight carbon emissions of flying.
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Greta Thunberg met Angela Merkel
Just last week, Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg along with or activists h met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to put forth ir demand for tougher action on curbing climate change and to get climate crisis back on political nda. Apart from 17-year-old, meet included Luisa Neubauer of Germany and Belgians Anuna de Wever van der Heyden and élaïde Charlier. After meet, Thunberg called it a ‘loop- of blame-game.
"We are sort of in loop where everyone blames each or because one can do everything so n one does anything," said Thunberg, speaking after meeting.
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Meanwhile, with coronavirus contagion and Black Lives Matter protests across globe, 17-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has ackwledged that world is at “social tipping point”. In an exclusive interview with BBC, Thunberg h said that world should learn from global health crisis and treat climate crisis with same level of ‘urgency’ as COVID-19 pandemic.
Since originating from China in December 2019, vel coronavirus has swept most parts of world and has w infected over 22.6 million people in total. 17-year-old ted that world leers are taking precautionary measures to curb drastic spre of COVID-19 “with necessary force”.
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(With AP inputs)
13:10 IST, August 25th 2020