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China's first student climate activist plants trees to protest

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In China, when millions of young people around the world, inspired by climate activist Greta Thunberg, took to the streets to ask their governments to take action on climate change. Although China is the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter.

Howey Ou, 16, was very disappointed. Therefore, in May, she started a strike of her own outside a government building. After seven days, the police took her off the street and advised her that the strike was illegal.

After trying to get permission to go on strike first, she found another way to protest: planting trees.

"Protest takes a lot of courage in China," she quoted German wave. "But we can plant trees." According to her Twitter account, 18 trees were planted in September.

“The climate crisis is the greatest threat to human civilization and the entire ecosystem. If my fight for the climate and ecosystem breaks the rules, the rules have to change, ”Howey Ou wrote about Twitter.

"Fridays for the future are much mocked and cursed on the Chinese Internet," quotes Deutsche Welle. "But I get some positive comments. People say: Look, the Chinese students are planting trees while the foreigners are just saying empty words. "

Written by Sonja Vlaar

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