Greta Thunberg is suing Sweden for the climate crisis
“Sweden has never treated the climate crisis as a crisis”
Greta Thunberg marched with hundreds of other activists through the Swedish capital where they filed a legal claim against the state for not doing enough to combat climate change.
Over 600 people under the age of 26 signed the 87-page document, which was submitted to the Stockholm District Court on Friday, asking the court to rule that the country’s climate policy has violated citizens’ human rights.
Today on Black Friday is the perfect day to sue the state for its inadequate climate policies.
So that’s what we did.
See you in court!
#Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 25, 2022
Anton Foley, spokesman for the youth-led initiative Aurora, which submitted the demand, said: “Sweden has never treated the climate crisis as a crisis.
“Sweden fails in its responsibility and breaks the law.”
Thunberg tweeted on Friday: “Today on Black Friday is the perfect day to sue the state for its inadequate climate policy.
“So that’s what we did. ‘See you in court!’
School strike week 223. Today we have 636 young people inside @auroramalet which is suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate measures. That is why we now marched from the Riksdag to the court.#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem @auroramalet pic.twitter.com/gatAMGPzcp
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) November 25, 2022
We are suing the Swedish state, because climate measures are a legal obligation.#Aurora #ClimateTrials #UprootTheSystem pic.twitter.com/sOSQX8hzjJ
— The Aurora Target (@auroramalet) November 26, 2022
Thunberg tweeted that Black Friday “is the perfect day to sue the state for its inadequate climate policy. So that’s what we did. ‘See you in court!’.”
A few hours later she added: “School strike week 223. “Today we are 636 young people in @auroramalet who are suing the Swedish state for insufficient climate measures.
“That’s why we now marched from the Riksdag to the court.”
Another activist, Ida Edling, said that Sweden “conducts a climate policy and the research is very clear will contribute to a climate disaster in the future”.
In 2017, Sweden’s Riksdag decided that by 2045 the nation should have zero net emissions of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere and 100% renewable energy.
TV4 said the government declined to comment on pending legal action.
Thunberg has recently criticized the Western world’s so-called obsession with capitalism.
During a sit-down chat in London to promote his new book, The Climate Book, the 19-year-old said the West is in need of a “system-wide transformation”.
“We will never get back to normal again because ‘normal’ was already a crisis,” she said.
“What we call normal is an extreme system built on the exploitation of people and the planet.
“It is a system defined by colonialism, imperialism, oppression and genocide by the so-called global north to accumulate wealth that still shapes our current world order.”
“We’re still here and we’re not planning to go anywhere,” she added.
“Young people all over the world are stepping up and showing that our leaders messed with the wrong generation.”
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