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Prominent climate activist, Greta Thunberg was detained by the

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police in London after she had just addressed protesters at

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a demonstration against oil and gas companies in the city

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center. The world is drowning in fossil fuels.

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Our hopes and dreams and lives are being washed away

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by a flood of green washing and lies. It

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has been clear for decades that the fossil food industries

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were well aware of the consequences of their business models

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and yet they have done nothing the opposite. They

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have actively delayed destructive and denied the causes of the

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climate crisis and spread doubt about their own engagement in

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it. Reuters reports, Thunberg became the face of

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young climate activists worldwide when she began staging weekly protests

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outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. It's important to

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note that this is not the first time she such

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situations. She has been detained by the police or

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removed from protests in several countries including Sweden Norway and

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Germany over the course of this year. As of

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now, London's Metropolitan Police has not issued an official

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statement regarding the incident.