• • Greta Thunberg a 16-year-old Sweden activist, has become the face of the youth climate movement
  • According to Business Insider, Thunberg started standing outside the Swedish parliament every Friday in 2018 and on September 20, 2019, Thunberg became successful to lead the largest climate strike in history including an estimated 4 million people across 161 countries
  • Time magazine has named Greta Thunberg, as “The  person of the year in September 2019

Born on January 3.2003 in Sweden as Greta Tintin, Greta Thunberg is an active teenage of climate activist who has been named Time magazine’s 2019 person of the year. 16-year-old Swedish teenager was named as Time magazine’s Person of the Year on Wednesday after leading a global movement against climate change.

According to the Times magazine, Greta Thunberg has become successful in creating a global attitudinal shift by transforming millions of vague, middle of the night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change.

“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean,” she said with her teary eyes. “Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” –Greta Thungberg

Greta Thunberg: Time’s 2019 person of the year at age of16 and face of climate activism in just 1 year?

In the 2018 summer time, Thunberg started standing outside parliament of Swedish every Friday. On September 20, 2019, largest climate strike in history was led by Thunberg, where the scale of that movement was estimated to be consisting of 4 million people from 161 countries. Thunberg gave an impassioned, tearful speechto world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit, following that global strike.

Thunberg has also addressed the United Nations, UK Parliament and US Congress Thunberg become successful in launching the “Fridays for Future” movement or also known as School Strike for Climate in the year 2018 which especially motivated students to skip school to demand and thrive for action related to climate change from their governments.

Thunberg was just in her ninth grade when she staged a strike for two weeks outside the Swedish parliament, demanding emissions cut by 15% a year by the government. Thunberg has met numerous world leaders in her quest to raise awareness related to actions addressing our changing climate. She usually spends her every Friday on strike.

Thunberg has been thinking about climate change andthe lack of action to minimize it since the age of 8. She has said she didn’t understand why adults weren’t working to mitigate its effects. According to Thunberg, she became depressed at the age of 11 by the seemingly impossible task of saving the planet.

Thunberg had won a climate change essay competition for the Swedish newspaper in May 2018, which became thestart of her activism career. Three months laterthat year, she started the School Strike for Climate effort, and began her first protest.

Thunberg said, “being different is a gift” as per an interview with BBC journalist Nick Robinson. She added that if she hadn’t suffered from Asperger’s, she wouldn’t have become such a passionate climate activist. She even tweeted about her health condition, saying that Asperger’s is a “superpower.”

According to Thunberg, young people around 123 countries skip school to demand healthier climate policies and the reduction of greenhouse-gas. She has launched a mass movement, which seems to be a major contribution to peace .She has even completed the 13-day, cross Atlantic journey with her father Svante, professional sailors Boris Herrmann and Pierre Casiraghi, and filmmaker Nathan Grossman.

She also met with US lawmakers to discuss climate-change policies. Instead of a prepared speech, Thunberg simply submitted a 2018 UN climate report. After her speech, Thunberg joined 15 other young people from around the world to file a legal complaint alleging that five countries’ inaction on global warming violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.