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Norway MPs want Nobel for student climate campaigner Greta
OSLO, March 14, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Greta Thunberg, the Swedish school girl
climate campaigner who has inspired worldwide protests, should be awarded
this year’s Nobel Peace prize, Norwegian lawmakers said Thursday.
“We have proposed Greta Thunberg because if we do nothing to halt climate
change it will be the cause of wars, conflict and refugees,” Norwegian
Socialist MP Freddy Andre Ovstegard told AFP.
“Greta Thunberg has launched a mass movement which I see as a major
contribution to peace,” he added.
Six months ago no one knew who Thunberg was when, as a 15-year-old, she
camped outside Sweden’s parliament next to a hand-written sign: “SCHOOL
STRIKE FOR CLIMATE”.
Since then she has gone global, striking a chord with younger people
disillusioned by the slow progress of the adult world in halting climate
change.
On Friday, thousands of students are expected to demonstrate in more than
100 countries in what activists say could be a milestone moment in a
grassroots campaign to push world leaders into doing more.
“We are only seeing the beginning,” Thunberg, now 16, tweeted recently.
“I think that change is on the horizon and the people will stand up for
their future.”
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