Greta Thunberg forcibly removed from climate protest after fine

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been forcibly removed by police from a protest in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, hours after a local court fined her for disobeying a police order during a similar protest last month.
Thunberg, 20, who became the face of young climate activists worldwide after staging weekly protests in front of the Swedish parliament, admitted during the court proceedings on Monday that she had disobeyed the police order but pleaded not guilty and said she was acting out of necessity.

Al Jazeera’s Paul Rhys reports from Malmo, Sweden.


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[skanthaadsigns]

She will be “paid & perked” for this Great Act of Courage

[thunderroad]

Why does she always have an "I just farted" smirk on her face?

[HarleyDavidsonVince]

If she cares so much about humanity why isn't she helping the elderly.

[Runnable]

The only time she smiles is when she is escorted by police

[zooutdoor]

Swedish kid lecturing us from cosmopolitan city...

[ДаниилСоколов-дъ]

Why is she always smiling when police grab her?

[drakenkraken]

Shakespeare wishes he could come up with so much daily drama.

[AdamWilliams-bbzk]

I’m so glad she’s fined. 😂however I don’t get why they arrest other protesters but not her? Is this planned?

[Aloh-odef]

She was protesting about oil, while using trains cars and planes to travel across the world.
These all use oil 😂😂

[andrewmartinez]

I thought this was something that happened already that she did before😊

[scottjohnson]

Instead of disrupting official business, why not go about this the correct way via petitioning her local government officials? Blocking access to a local terminal is obviously illegal in many locales - including Sweden & will only land Ms. Thunberg in more legal trouble. Since it's obvious the 2.5K kronor ($240) fine wasn't a strong-enough deterrent to Ms. Thunberg's criminal behavior, the Swedish courts need to impose a stiffer fine & a stay in the local Jailhouse Motel. I have no issues with folks protesting for a cause. However, when said protests disrupt official business & violate local laws, it's time to place the protesters under arrest & haul them away to jail. Beyond ridiculous.

[rajatkm.]

Spolied Girl, She must be happy after getting so much attention from media once again

[desistarktm]

If Oscar could be given to real life actors:

[adrianaspalinky]

Crowdfund, we will pay the fine for you.

[ericfaith]

Im sure solar weather has nothing to do with our own weather and it must all be fossil fuel related. Yes, Im being very sarcastic.

[Vitamin_]

This girl needs to be treated, she is mentally ill, but she is simply being taken advantage of by interested companies.

[silviashefa]

As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises?
The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance.
We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us.
It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us—whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit—because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us.
No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other.
If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature.
In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other—from negative to positive.

[salomiepieterse]

Likely I do not consider myself stupid to think a child with issues can have a say in world matters.who is making money by exploiting this poor disillusion child

[thetrollslayer]

Before climate she needs to fix her anger issues.

[MAGAted]

and they try to pretend their not a cult