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Like just another teenager, riding a white bicycle, Greta Thunberg has returned to class this week announcing it on twitter: "My gap year is over, and it's a great feeling to be back in school again!" . It does not even indicate which institute it is, although everything indicates that it is in Stockholm, where she lives with her family.

Greta, however, is not just another student, but the most famous teenager on the planet. In fact, her return to the classroom occurred a couple of days later than that of her peers. He had to meet Angela Merkel first . The German Chancellor received it in Berlin at the request of Thunberg herself and her Fridays for Future movement. And it was not a mere courtesy encounter. An hour and a half they were together. With her usual frankness, Greta read the primer to Merkel: "Be brave enough to think long term."

The chancellor had taken the opportunity to explain Germany's climate ambitions during her EU presidency, as well as the Union's goals of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Before the press, Greta She explained that her interlocutor had been very kind, but that she also has a great responsibility when it comes to making real changes: "It is about us dealing with the climate crisis while we handle the other crises. What we want is leaders. We want people to change your position, prioritize the future and dare to think long term. "

Sabbaticals are not very unusual among young Scandinavians, although in the case of Thunberg, 17, he arrived a little earlier than usual and his activities have had nothing to do with those that his peers usually practice. No working in a supermarket or living in a boarding school: Greta has crossed the Atlantic, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and invited by Barack Obama, has led demonstrations and strikes, has crossed the United States in an electric Tesla borrowed by Arnold Schwarzenegger , has received the keys to Montreal and has even angrily confronted dozens of world leaders in a historic and controversial speech delivered at the UN Climate Summit in New York.

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words , " he said then. Returning to the institute may be a way to regain a more normal youth, although there is no indication that Greta will lower her guard. Apart from meeting with Merkel, her visit to Berlin was also aimed at leading a climate strike that complements the letter that, on July 20, she sent to the leaders and heads of state of the EU. In it, along with three other activists, she warned them that, to avoid a climate catastrophe, it is no longer enough to "do your best", but rather to "do the seemingly impossible."

She continues, therefore, as fierce as ever, and it seems that some result is giving her. At the beginning of the summer he lashed out at the Copenhagen authorities, who boast so much about the Danish capital's green image, for having granted a special permit for the immediate discharge of 290 million liters of wastewater into the Øresund, the arm of the sea that separates Denmark from Sweden.

"Yes, the same Copenhagen that says it wants to be a 'neutral city' in 2025," Thunberg wrote wryly. His message was the icing on the cake of a media storm that, for now, has managed to delay the spill until October despite the fact that at first it was said that it was "impossible" to postpone it. It should be noted that it is untreated wastewater, since some works prevent the mandatory passage through the treatment facilities on the island of Refshale.

The Greta who returns to class is, in any case, a very different person from the one who started a one-person school strike a little over two years ago: "Before that I had no energy, no friends, and I didn't speak to anyone. I was left alone. at home with an eating disorder. "

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