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  1. Greta Thunberg

    Greta Thunberg (born January 3, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change, founding (2018) a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate).. Thunberg's mother was an opera singer, and her father was an actor. Greta was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which is now considered an autism ...

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    Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate youth activist who has received worldwide recognition for her efforts to fight climate change. By Biography.com Editors Updated: Mar 10, 2021 10:57 AM EST

  3. Greta Thunberg

    Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg [21] [22] was born on 3 January 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden, [23] [24] to opera singer Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg. [25] [26] Her paternal grandfather was actor and director Olof Thunberg.[27] [28] [29] As explained by The Week, "with a thespian father" and singer mother, "it is perhaps unsurprising that [Thunberg] has a slightly unusual name....

  4. Greta Thunberg: Who is the climate activist and what has she ...

    Greta Thunberg is one of the world's best-known climate change campaigners. She has been credited with raising public awareness, especially amongst young people Ms Thunberg was born in the Swedish ...

  5. Greta Thunberg

    Introduction. Greta Thunberg is a Swedish activist who works to address the problem of climate change. She is the founder of a movement known as Fridays for Future. It is also known as School Strike for Climate. Thunberg began the movement in August 2018 when she missed school to sit outside the Swedish parliament with a sign that read (in ...

  6. Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet

    Greta Thunberg is far from the only child activist calling attention to the climate crisis, nor is she by any means the first. Jamie Margolin is the 17-year-old founder of Zero Hour, a youth-led ...

  7. Greta Thunberg Is Now 17. Here's How She Started a Climate Movement

    Greta Thunberg, a teenage activist from Sweden who has become the face of the youth climate movement, turns 17 today. In the summer of 2018, Thunberg started sitting outside the Swedish parliament ...

  8. Greta Thunberg: The teenage old soul of the climate crisis

    Greta Thunberg, then 15, holds a placard reading "School strike for the climate" during a protest against climate change outside the Swedish parliament last November. "The symbolism of the ...

  9. Greta Thunberg

    Greta Thunberg. Greta Thunberg, in full Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, (born January 3, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change, founding (2018) a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate). Thunberg's mother was an opera singer, and ...

  10. Greta Thunberg facts

    1) Greta Thunberg is an environmental activist. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2003. When she was eight, she started learning about climate change. The more she learned, the more baffled she became as to why so little was being done about it. 2) At the age of 11, Greta became so sad about climate change that she temporarily stopped speaking!

  11. Becoming Greta: 'Invisible Girl' to Global Climate Activist, With Bumps

    Small, shy, survivor of crippling depression, Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish girl skipping school to shame the world into addressing climate change, drew a parade of fans one Friday in ...

  12. Greta Thunberg: TIME's Person of the Year 2019

    Greta Thunberg has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change

  13. Who is Greta Thunberg, Time's Person of the Year

    Teenage activist Greta Thunberg called out political and business leaders Dec. 11 for their inaction in the climate fight at a United Nations summit in Madrid. (Video: Reuters) By Brady Dennis ...

  14. Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed

    In that short time, Thunberg, a 17-year-old Swede, has become a figure of international standing, able to meet with sympathetic world leaders and rattle the unsympathetic. ... Greta Thunberg with ...

  15. Greta Thunberg

    Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on January 3, 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden. Her mother was an opera singer, and her father was an actor. Thunberg was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which is now considered an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is characterized by abnormalities in social interactions (as in classic autism) but ...

  16. Greta Thunberg: It's never too late to do as much as we can

    Activist Greta Thunberg is still hopeful the world can achieve "massive changes" to combat climate change.

  17. 16‑year‑old climate activist Greta Thunberg named Time's ...

    On December 11, 2019, 16‑year‑old Greta Thunberg is named Time magazine's Person of the Year. The Swedish climate activist became the first Person of the Year to be born in the 21st century ...

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    Greta Thunberg is known worldwide for being a teen climate change activist. While she is no longer a teenager, her activism continues as she fights to end our reliance on fossil fuels and mitigate ...

  19. Read climate activist Greta Thunberg's speech to the UN

    Read Greta Thunberg's speech below: 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.

  20. Who Is Greta Thunberg?

    Thunberg recently teamed up with British writer, activist, and fellow vegan George Monbiot to create a short film about the climate crisis. "This is not a drill," the 16-year-old opens the film by saying. "My name is Greta Thunberg. We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction.". In the video, Thunberg speaks about the importance ...

  21. Xiye Bastida

    Bastida awaiting Greta Thunberg's arrival, 2019. Bastida was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico, to parents Mindahi [6] and Geraldine, who are also environmentalists, [7] and raised in the town of San Pedro Tultepec in Lerma. [8] [9] Her father is of Otomi descent while her Chilean mother has Celtic ancestry.[10] [11] Bastida currently holds dual Mexican and Chilean citizenship.