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Newly unveiled Greta Thunberg statue rankles students, local community

Titled “Make a Difference” and commissioned in 2019 (the same year Winchester declared a “climate and ecological emergency”), the statue cost the school almost 24,000 pounds (just over $33,000) and is thought to be the first commemorating Thunberg, the Daily Mail reports.

The university says the statue symbolizes Winchester’s commitment to “sustainability and social justice.”

But the Winchester University and College Union called the statue a “vanity project” and said the funds used to pay for it could have been used elsewhere.

“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,” the College Union said in a statement.

The union said statue monies should have gone to “preventing redundancies and cuts” at the school.