'We will make them listen!' Greta Thunberg tells youth as she slams EU's green deal
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg took to the streets in Brussels to head a climate march on Friday (March 6), just one day after delivering a scathing speech to the European Parliament criticising the 2050 deadline for EU climate targets.
Protestors congregated outside Brussels' Central Station before moving up in a column towards the European Quarter where Thunberg called on EU officials to 'to stop leaving their mess for someone else to clean up for them.'
Thunberg began missing school on Fridays in 2018, choosing instead to sit outside her country's parliament in protest at what she sees as an inadequate political response to the climate crisis. Her solitary protest was shared on social media and quickly gathered fame and momentum, with Friday school strikes now being replicated on a mass scale in countries around the world.
Brussels police said the march was attended was 3400 people, many of whom were themselves young students skipping school to march alongside Thunberg.S
