A Swedish court on Monday fined climate activist Greta Thunberg for disobeying police during an environmental protest at an oil facility last month. Thunberg, 20, admitted to the facts but denied guilt, saying the fight against the fossil fuel industry was a form of self-defense due to the existential and global threat of the climate crisis.
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00:00 [CHATTER]
00:17 -We just learned that I got 30 day fines for disobeying the
00:21 police, which was expected.
00:25 We are definitely not going to back down because of this.
00:27 We know that what we are doing in some circumstances are seen
00:35 as these.
00:36 But right now, we don't have any laws that holds the carbon
00:41 to the ground.
00:41 We don't have any laws that long-term protect us against
00:44 the self-destructing greed that we have let in full
00:47 control over the world.
00:50 The laws have to be changed.
00:52 We know that we cannot save the world by playing by the
00:55 rules, because the rules have to be changed.
00:57 I'm disappointed at the system, but I didn't expect
01:00 anything else than this.
01:02 We know that the current laws that we have now are
01:05 insufficient in addressing the climate emergency.
01:08 -We don't feel intimidated by the actions of the Swedish
01:10 court.
01:11 If the court sees our actions of self-defense as a crime,
01:16 that's how it is.
01:18 Rather, it's even more clear than it would have been
01:21 otherwise that we have to be exactly where the harm is
01:23 being done, that we have to be out in the oil ports
01:26 defending our lives.
01:27 Because apparently, currently, the states and other power
01:31 actors are not ready to do what's needed.
01:33 [SIDE CONVERSATION]