Greta Thunberg Says Germany Should Keep Its Nuclear Plants Open

Greta Thunberg speaks in Berlin in Sept. 2021.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Germany shouldn’t close nuclear plants that are currently generating power if it means increasing the burning of coal, Greta Thunberg said.

“If we have them already running, I feel that it’s a mistake to close them down in order to focus on coal,” the Swedish climate activist, 19, said in an interview with Germany’s Das Erste TV channel.