• Greta Thunberg made a surprise appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in England on June 25.

    She gave a new speech on the climate emergency.

  • Several publications shared on social networks show pictures of waste strewn on the ground of the festival.

    Internet users are scandalized that such a thing follows a speech on ecology.

  • The photographs were not actually taken during the 2022 edition, but several years ago.

Ecologists are ecological only in words, but not in deeds?

This is claimed by several publications widely shared on social networks.

We see the young ambassador for the preservation of the planet, Greta Thunberg, on stage in front of a crowd.

The following photograph purports to show the same place after the festivities, filled with rubbish.

“How pathetic is this youth!

It will idolize Greta Thunberg, it is not even able to throw a paper in a basket!

Glastonbury has been the biggest gathering of hypocrites this year,” wrote one internet user.

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Glastonbury is a festival in England that describes itself as "one of the greatest treasures of music and art on the planet".

The 2022 edition was held from June 22 to 26.

And on Saturday 25, Greta Thunberg stole the show from the musicians for a ten-minute speech on the big stage.

After painting a bleak picture for the future of the planet, the activist underlined: “The generations that preceded us failed.

We have this historic responsibility to reverse the course of things.

If a small group of school children can take millions of people to the streets, imagine what we could all do together if we tried.

His surprise arrival had only been announced a few hours before.

Pictures from 2011 and 2015

And the photographs of the waste strewn on the ground?

They were not taken following this speech.

By an image search on Google, it is possible to find this shot on the Daily mail website, in an article published in June 2019. But also in a portfolio of photographer David Hedges, whose name is listed at the bottom left .

It's actually dated June 29, 2015, with the caption: "Revelers begin to make their way home through a sea of ​​rubbish near the Pyramid Stage as Glastonbury Festival draws to a close at Worthy Farm, Somerset.

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Similar photographs are also shared, and they are not from the 2022 edition either. A new image search finds the snapshot in an online image bank, this time dated June 27, 2011.

The Glastonbury Festival has already been singled out for its very significant pollution.

Each year, photographs, such as those used in the publication, lamented a significant amount of waste.

Since 2019, the sale of single-use plastic bottles has been banned there.

“With over a million plastic bottles sold in 2017 during the festival, we believe that stopping selling them is the best way forward,” organizers said in a statement at the time.

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