Swedish police forcibly took environmental activist Greta Thunberg outside the Swedish parliament on Tuesday, where she blocked the entrance with other activists, Reuters and AFP reported.

Judging by the pictures, two policemen lifted her from the ground and dragged the activist about 20 meters.

Greta Thunberg and dozens of other environmental activists began a blockade of the main entrances to Sweden’s parliament on Monday, waving a banner with her classic slogan, “Climate Justice Now,” as part of an occupation movement against the effects of global warming and what she denounces as political inaction.

“We are a group of young people blocking the entrances to Sweden’s parliament, the Riksdag, to protest the ongoing destruction of our survival systems and the people who have already died due to the climate crisis,” Greta Thunberg said.

“This has to stop. We’re fed up,” she told Reuters, accusing political leaders of inaction on global warming.

She believes that young people, mobilized for five years in the fight against climate change, have been forced to “grow up too quickly” to deal with the damage caused by previous generations.

Activists left the site on Monday evening but returned on Tuesday morning to hold a demonstration.

“There are a lot of young people who grew up with the environmental movement and we grew up too fast to take responsibility and clean up after the previous generation,” she told AFP at a rally in Stockholm.

She said that she feels like a “scratched plate” with her colleagues.

Greta Thunberg blames political inaction

21-year-old Greta Thunberg became the “face” of young activists in the fight against global warming.

Weekly demonstrations that began in 2018 in front of the Swedish parliament quickly grew into a global youth movement and large gatherings on all continents.

Political leaders “did not act. We will continue to go in the wrong direction. Emissions continue to increase,” she condemned.

“That’s why we feel we have no choice but to try new and different methods to be heard,” she said.

“We are staying here for now,” the activist announced.

“The Swedish government and all other governments in the world do not see the climate crisis as a crisis,” she charges.

“They continue to allow short-term economic gains to take over the lives of people on the planet,” she decries.

The Swede, who became world famous for the “school strikes to fight climate change” that she started when she was 15 years old in Sweden, regularly participates in such actions, in which she denounces the lack of public policy against global warming.

Last year, she was arrested by police or removed from demonstrations in several countries, including Sweden, Norway and Germany.

Last month, a British court acquitted her of disorderly conduct charges. A judge ruled that police did not have the power to arrest her or others during a demonstration in London in 2023.

“The climate crisis will only worsen, and it is our responsibility, all those who have the opportunity to act, to do so. We encourage everyone who can to join us and join the movement for climate justice,” Greta Thunberg asked on Monday.

Also on Monday, the European Environment Agency (EEA) warned that Europe could face “catastrophic” situations if it does not address the scale of climate risks it faces, such as extreme heat, drought, forest fires or floods.

How helpful are the actions of activist Greta Thunberg?

The first “World Youth Day for Climate Change”, which emerged from the speech of an environmental activist through the “Fridays for the Future” movement, mobilized thousands of young people around the world on March 15, 2019.

The movement and its marches to fight climate change have had a global impact, SciencesPo political science researcher Joost de Moor told AFP.

This “caused awareness,” he emphasizes.

They “contributed to increasing the legitimacy of pro-climate policy development, which made it easier for voluntary politicians to act on the issue”, finds Joost De Moor, who cites the example of Frans Timmermans, the former vice-president of the European Commission (EC), responsible for the Green Deal.

Despite this, policies in favor of combating climate change are far from an answer to the concerns of scientists, the researcher notes.