The contrast with the present fuels the astonishment. The longevity, in Germany, of this movement against global warming now prompts hilarity from the activist who helped it take off. The movement whose duration she mocks across the Rhine is the very one she helped spread starting on August 20, 2018.
Greta Thunberg now mocks the longevity, in Germany, of the movement against global warming. The Swedish activist finds cause for hilarity in the continuation of demonstrations that she herself helped spread.
The reaction is all the more surprising because it was precisely she who drove the spread of this movement. On August 20, 2018, she launched that spread from the forecourt of the Swedish Parliament, before the mobilization reached other countries.
That same year, Greta Thunberg took part in popularizing high-school strikes for the climate. These student strikes were part of demonstrations intended to put pressure on international leaders.
In the late 2010s, these gatherings brought together several hundred thousand young people around the world. They aimed to weigh on international leaders over global warming, on a scale that far exceeded the Swedish forecourt from which the movement spread.