The young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has begun the long journey to the World Economic Forum in Davos by train. Yesterday in the morning, the 16-year-old in Sweden started her first leg on the 65-hour journey – „morning train to the World Economic Forum in Davos,“ she wrote on Twitter.
Morning train to Davos World Economic Forum # wef pic.twitter.com/b5VdaYPfKR
– Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) January 22, 2019
In the luggage, the student has a backpack, a small red suitcase and a demonstration sign with the inscription „Skolstrejk for klimatet“ (school strike for the climate). She announced that she would attend the conference from today to Friday.
Air travel enormously harmful to the climate
Because air travel emits a lot of CO2 and is therefore harmful to the climate, she decided to travel by train. She has already achieved that her parents stopped flying a few years ago, she said in advance in an interview on the Swedish-Norwegian program „Skavlan“. You can use the time in the train well to do all sorts of things – for example, to write a speech. For a comment, she was initially beyond the social networks during the trip to reach.
Thunberg is at the forefront of stronger climate awareness. She calls for more action and less talk about climate change. As part of her protest campaign „School strike for the climate“ she demonstrates every Friday before the Reichstag in Stockholm. The action has already found imitators around the world.
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland in December, she said, „We need to understand the chaos that has befallen the older generation, which we are now tidying up and living with.“
