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Greta Thunberg

Rossella Palomba

Giuseppe Palomba

Danilo Di Ceglia

Biography

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on January 3rd 2003. She is a Swedish environmental activist who has gained international recognition for promoting the view that humanity is facing an existential crisis arising from climate change. She has received numerous honours and awards including: honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Time magazine's 100 most influential people and the youngest Time Person of the Year; inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019) and two consecutive nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019 and 2020).

Mental health

Mental Healt

Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it. The situation made her depressed. She stopped talking and eating, and lost ten kilograms in two months. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder, and selective mutism.

Activism

In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate). She organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. To avoid flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed "how dare you", was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.

UN Climate Action Summit 2019

In September 2019, she travelled to New York to address a UN climate conference. Greta refuses to fly because of its environmental impact, so she made her way there in a racing yacht, in a journey that lasted two weeks.

UN Climate Action Summit 2019

Skolstrejk för klimatet

Skolstrejk för klimate

The Skolstrejk för klimatet, also known variously as Fridays for Future, is an international movement of school students who take time off from class on Fridays to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transform it to renewable energy. The 2019 Global Week for Future was a series of 4500 strikes across over 150 countries, focused around Friday September 20th and Friday September 27th. On September 20th strikes gathered roughly 4 million protesters. On September 27th, an estimated 2 million people participated in demonstrations worldwide, including over 1 million protesters in Italy.

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