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Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS; born 3 January 3rd 2003 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. Thunberg is known for her youth and her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take sufficient action to address the climate crisis.
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.
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 on a racing yacht, in a journey that lasted two weeks.
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 take action to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transform 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.