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Greta Thunberg Says Swedish Politicians Ignoring Climate Crisis In Run-Up To Election

Greta Thunberg said politicians were treating the climate as a distant problem.Stockholm: Sweden's politicians are ignoring the climate crisis in the run-up to the election on Sept. 11 and treating it as if it were just a problem rather than a life-or-death threat, activist Greta Thunberg said.The war in Ukraine and the ongoing energy crisis, which has seen power prices soar, are dominating the headlines with just a week to go before the vote while welfare, schools and gang crime also head the list of voter concerns.Thunberg, whose Friday protests outside Sweden's parliament years ago turned into a global youth movement demanding action on climate change, said the issue had been "pretty much non-existent", during the campaign."We have been completely been focusing on other things," she ...