Watch the climate activist Greta Thunberg at the climate protest
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg headed to Jokkmokk in northern Swedish Lapland to take part in a climate protest on Friday.
Thunberg said at the event that indigenous people all over the world are leading the fight against climate change and showing the greatest resistance.
She said: “We stand in solidarity with your fight because it’s our fight too.
Indigenous people are on the front-line and we support you. We stand behind you.”
A Sami youth organization invited the 17-year-old climate activist so she could learn more about their culture and language.
She also heard about how climate change affected the Arctic region.
Average temperatures in the Arctic region have risen more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6°F) since pre-industrial times, according to research for the intergovernmental Arctic Council.
Thunberg also attended the World Economic Forum 2020 that took place in Davos, Switzerland which also attended by U.S. President Donald Trump.
When Trump announced that his organization will plant one trillion trees worldwide, Thunberg slammed the plan saying, ‘planting one trillion trees is not enough.
She said: “We’re not telling you to offset your emissions by paying someone to plant trees in somewhere like Africa, while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate.”
She also said that her generation will not give up without a fight. She also accused everyone of not addressing the issue even though the effects are so clear.
“You just leave it because you think it’s too depressing. Our house is still on fire”, she said.
“Your inaction is fueling the flames. And we are telling you to act as if you loved your children above all else”, she added.
Thunberg and Trump both had a Twitter fight after she was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019.
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