Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who gained international prominence for her efforts to address climate change. Born on January 3, 2003, Thunberg first gained attention in August 2018 when, at age 15, she started skipping school to protest outside the Swedish Parliament, demanding stronger action on climate change. She held a sign that read “Skolstrejk för klimatet” (School strike for climate). Thunberg’s activism quickly attracted media attention and inspired the “Fridays for Future” movement, where students around the world began striking from school to demand climate action. Thunberg’s speeches at international forums, such as the United Nations Climate Action Summit and the World Economic Forum, have garnered widespread attention for her blunt and impassioned calls for immediate action to combat climate change. She has received numerous awards for her activism, including being named Time magazine’s Person of the Year in 2019 and being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Thunberg continues to advocate for climate action, emphasizing the urgency of the issue and the need for governments and institutions to take decisive steps to reduce carbon emissions and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
SOME QUOTES OF GRETA THUNBERG
“ This is all wrong, i shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” – Greta Thunberg
“Richer countries such as Canada and Sweden need to get down to zero emissions much faster so people in poorer countries can heighten their standard of living by building the infrastructure we have already built, we’re not doing this because it’s fun or because we have a special interest in the climate or because we want to become politicians when we grow up. We’re doing this because our future is at stake.” – Greta Thunberg
“I guess they must feel like their world view or their interests or whatever… is threatened by us. We’ve become too loud for people to handle so they try to silence us, we should also take that as a compliment.” – Greta Thunberg
“He is of course obviously not doing enough but… this is such a huge problem, my message to all the politicians is the same, to just listen to the science, act on the science.” – Greta Thunberg
“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing, we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” – Greta Thunberg
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet, I’m one of the lucky ones, people are suffering, people are dying.” – Greta Thunberg
“We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable.” – Greta Thunberg
“I might feel a bit seasick and it’s not going to be comfortable but that I can live with, if it’s really hard then I just have to think it’s only for two weeks then I can go back to as usual.” – Greta Thunberg
“At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else.” – Greta Thunberg
“I don’t really like being in the centre of attention. I’m not used to that. All my life I have been like the invisible girl at the back that no one sees or listens to.” – Greta Thunberg
“We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change- and it has to start today.” – Greta Thunberg
“Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago.” – Greta Thunberg
“You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.” – Greta Thunberg
“Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must now decide which path we want to take. How do we want the future living conditions for all living species to be like?” – Greta Thunberg
