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A controversial life-sized bronze sculpture of environmental activist Greta Thunberg has been unveiled by a university after being branded a “vanity project”.
The statue of the “inspirational” Swedish climate change protester has been created by the University of Winchester to reflect its values on “sustainability and social justice”.
But the Winchester University and College Union (UCU) posted a motion of censure on social media calling the sculpture a “vanity project” and stating the £24,000 cost should have been spent on preventing redundancies and cuts following a period of sustainability at the Hampshire university.
It added: “To be clear: our concerns are about the expenditure and transparency of decision making by the university, which have long been opaque, not the subject of the statue.”
Ignoring that argument Greta Thunberg pulled off another perfect piece of trolling on Thursday, with a classic April Fools’ joke.
The teenage activist Tweeted that she had created a video on YouTube where she would detail some of the small things we could all do to stop the climate crisis.
“We are in this together, and everyone is needed. YOU get to decide what future you’ll live in. So please watch, share and start doing your part today,” alongside a generic stock image of climate.
Predicting a stream of abuse from adults claiming to know better than her, she fooled a lot of people as the link actually sent you to Rick Astley’s 80’s classic ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ music video.
Basically Thunberg ‘Rickrolled’ the entire internet.
A lot of people didn’t bother to click on the link and just spouted off without checking what she had to say.
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But those who took the time to click the link found it highly amusing.
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