Greta Thunberg Fined For Climate Protest In Her Native Sweden

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was found guilty of disobeying a police order and will be fined. Thunberg will have to pay a total of 4,500 Swedish crowns ($414) for failing to leave a July 24 climate protest when police told her to do so.

“There are no laws to protect us in the long-term from the greed that tries to drag us over the cliff. We young people do not want to see our future taken away from us,” she said in a news conference in response to the verdict.

During the protest, Thunberg and activists from Reclaim the Future blocked a road where oil trucks were driving to the Malmo, Sweden, harbor. This is the second time in three months she was convicted and fined for disobeying the police. Thunberg was charged on September 15 for her actions.

She admitted to blocking the road but denied any wrongdoing, saying the fight against the fossil fuel industry is a form of self-defense amid the threat of climate change.

In Sweden, failure to cooperate with orders from the police has a maximum sentence of half a year in prison.

Despite the setback, Thunberg shows no signs of slowing down her climate protests. On Thursday, she traveled to Norway to join Sami protesters against a wind farm because it could endanger reindeer herders’ way of life. Thunberg believes that the transition to green energy should not come at the expense of the rights of the Sami people, who are a native group living in the north of Norway.

Thunberg was recently in the news when her trolling of influencer Andrew Tate led to his arrest in Romania on human trafficking charges.