“We must put them to the wall and make sure that they do their job and protect our future.”
similar to the said klimaaktivisten Greta Thunberg on world leaders during a demonstration. There was just a big problem:
scandinavian expression ‘to put someone to the wall’ seems not to translate – but it was in English, the 16-year-old swede held his speech at the demonstration in the Italian Turin.
Then, when Thunberg urged the activists to ‘put them (leaders of the world, red.) against the wall’, it gave people some quite other associations than intended:
she called for violence against the politicians responsible.
It will now Greta Thunberg to explain himself and apologize.
In the two tweets are hitting the world-famous klimaaktivist real, that it was precisely sprogforviklinger, which was the cause of the unfortunate wording.
“This is what happens when you impromptu speaking in your second language. But of course, I apologize if anyone misunderstood it. I can not establish clearly enough that I – as well as the rest of the skolestrejkebevægelsen – is against any form of violence. It should be unnecessary to say, but now I do it anyway,” writes Greta Thunberg, and stresses that she ‘put them against the wall’ meant to make the politicians accountable.
The 16-year-old Swedish klimaaktivist, which has just been chosen as the Person in 2019 by the american news magazine Time, has granted itself the christmas holidays at home in Sweden for a long time to have been very active in the fight to get politicians to commit to do more for the climate.
But on Twitter Thunberg is still very active.
Thunberg comments, among other things, the ongoing climate change summit in Madrid, which should have been finished Friday, but has been extended, because it has not been possible to reach a solution on several key points of conflict.
Greta Thunberg is not impressed by politicians ‘ efforts during the negotiations.
“Right now, seen it out to the COP25 in Madrid is about to fall together. Science speaks its own language, but the science is being ignored. No matter what happens, we will never give up. We have only just begun,” she wrote on Twitter late on Saturday night.
At about the same time, it emerged that many of the 196 participating countries are disappointed and outright angry over the lack of willingness to compromise during the negotiations.
the european UNION and many developing countries are pointing the accusatory finger towards the large CO2-sinners like China, India, Japan, Brazil and Australia, which will not bind themselves to drastic reductions.
It is expected that the climate change conference ends in the course of Sunday.
