Globetrotting, Greta Thunberg Says ‘I Need a Break Now’
After a hectic travel schedule around the year, she had made it clear that now she needs some little downtime.
Greta Thunberg has been tirelessly campaigning across the globe to demand more action on climate change, but she now needs some rest.
After a hectic travel schedule around the year, she had made it clear that now she needs some little downtime. On reaching the north Italian city of Turin Greta told reporters, “I will be home for Christmas and then I will take a holiday break because you need to take rest. Otherwise you cannot do this all the time”.
The 16-year-old, who became the youngest person to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year this week, as she joins thousands of students in Turin recently for a protest to pressure the government to take concrete action to curb carbon emissions.
Greta Thunberg reached Turin by train and car from Madrid after attending the climate summit organised by the United Nations in the Spanish capital. She reached Europe aboard a catamaran after spending some months of the campaign in the United States.
The activist has showed plenty of energy as she addressed the environment rally in Turin, which is also known as the birthplace of the carmaker Fiat. Turin is also one of Italy’s main among the industrial and polluting regions.
In the rally, Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg asked young people of Italy to fight for their future in the next decade, as she said, “2019 is almost over. We must now, make sure that 2020 is the year of action, is the year when we have bent the global emissions curve. We are going to put more pressure on those in power, we are going to make sure that they will act and they will take responsibility”.
Greta also added, “Adults are behaving as if there is no tomorrow, but there is a tomorrow. We have to fight for that tomorrow as our lives depend on that, because they do.”
Fellow activist Elena Costa from Turin said, “We are very excited to have Greta protesting side-by-side with us. We want to make people understand our objectives and invite everyone to come Friday after Friday, every single week.”
When Greta Thunberg was 15 years old, she skipped her school every Friday to demonstrate outside the Swedish parliament to push the government to curb carbon emissions. Her individual campaign than gave rise to a global grassroots movement called ‘Fridays for Future’, inspiring millions of people to take action against carbon emissions.
