The well-known activist said politicians and the media have chosen not to convey that many of the crises facing the world are closely linked to the climate crisis.
Its politicians Sweden are ignoring the climate crisis as the country’s 9/11 elections approach and are treating it as if it were just a problem rather than a life-or-death threat, the climate activist has charged Greta Thunberg.
The war in Ukraine and the ongoing energy crisis, with energy prices soaring, dominate the headlines just a week before Sweden’s election, while welfare, schools and gang crime top the list. the concerns of voters.
“We’re totally focused on other things,” Thunberg told Reuters.
Politicians and the media have “choose not to convey that so many of the crises we face now are very closely related to it”.
“Therefore people naturally only focus on things that are right in front of them instead of really focusing on the bigger holistic picture,” he noted.
Politicians treat climate as a distant problem, he continued.
“Let’s just take Pakistan now as an example, a very clear example,” completed.
Record monsoon rainfall and melting glaciers in northern Pakistan caused floods that affected 33 million people and killed at least 1,290, including 453 children.
“It’s like focusing on the climate when we have the time,” he said. It’s like treating it as “something that — yes, it’s a problem, but not an existential emergency that affects all other issues, as it should be” to do, he concluded.
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