Civil disobedience. A philosophical look at the Fridayforfuture movement

Abstract

This paper entitled "Civil disobedience. A philosophical look at the Fridayforfuture movement", aims to analyze whether the Friday For Future movement led by Greta Thunberg constitutes a case of civil disobedience. Taking into account that Friday For Future is a movement that mainly fights for environmental protection and to generate change in the face of the disregard and passivity of world governments in the application of policies and laws that protect the environment, their environmental activism is manifested by protesting every Friday, calling international attention, and inspiring students, young people and others throughout the world to support their initiative and to participate in strikes and protests. Therefore, the characteristics of the Friday For Future movement meet the necessary conditions to be a clear example of civil disobedience, since it is a collective action, public, illegal, peaceful, against a specific unjust and immoral legal order and seeks to change world governments in the implementation of policies and laws that really protect the environment. In this context, the main points of discussion in this article are 1.- Civil disobedience; 2.- Brief historical review; 3. Greta Thunberg: a year to change the world, the documentary. The methodology used was qualitative, as a theoretical analysis of the subject of study was carried out and the bibliography related to the subject was consulted, with the purpose of reaching a better understanding of the subject and adequately interpreting the different concepts used.