In 2018, then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg started her famous climate strike, which grew into a global movement in a few months. A quiet girl on the autism spectrum became a world-renowned activist trying to save the world. In this article, we reveal some interesting facts about Greta Thumberg, a young fighter for climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
- Thunberg became famous after in 2018, when she was 15 years old, protested before the Swedish Parliament.
- She designed a sign reading "School Strike for Climate" to pressure the government to meet its carbon emissions targets.
- Her little campaign is had a global impact and inspired thousands of young people around the world to organize their own strikes.
- By December 2018, more than 20,000 students – from the UK to Japan – had joined her by skipping school in protest.
- A year later, she received the first of three nominations for Nobel Prize for peace for climate activism.
- In 2019, she sailed across the Atlantic to attend the United Nations Climate Conference in New York.
- In 2019, she was on the cover Time magazine. This put her on the list of one hundred the most influential people in the world and declared her the person of the year.
- She emphatically told world leaders, that with empty promises they steal children's dreams and future.
- Its development disorder - Asperger's syndrome - described as a gift and a superpower.
- Thunberg's mother, Malena Ernman, is an opera singer and former participant in the Eurovision Song Contest.
11. Greta's father, Svante Thunberg, is an actor and the descendant of a scientist who created a model of the greenhouse effect.
12. It came out last year her documentary - Greta -, which follows her life from her first climate strike, to a sailing trip, to a series of speeches she gave at influential institutions around the world. It also shows her relationship with her family and her struggle with Asperger's syndrome.
