Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on January 3rd, 2003 and is the Activist. At the age of 21, Greta Thunberg biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Greta Tintin Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental campaigner on climate change whose campaign has received international recognition.
Thunberg is known for her speaking demeanor in public and at political and assembly halls, in which she encourages immediate intervention to solve what she sees as the climate crisis. Thunberg first became known for her activism in August 2018 when, at the age of 15, she began exercising outside the Swedish parliament to demand more action on global warming by holding up a sign that says (in Swedish) "School strike for the climate"!
Other students in the local communities would soon engage in similar demonstrations.
They formed a school climate strike group under the banner "Fridays for Future" on Fridays.
Student strikes took place every week around the world after Thunberg spoke at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
At least two planned multi-city demonstrations involving over a million students per year were held in 2019.
Thunberg's parents were perplexed by their own environmental footprint, which included abolizing air travel and not eating meat.
Thunberg was on the front page of Time magazine in May 2019, naming her a "next generation leader" and pointing out that many see her as a role model.
In a 30-minute Vice documentary titled Make the World Greta Again, Thunberg and the school strike campaign were also included.
Some journalists have referred to her presence on the international stage as the "Greta Thunberg effect."
Thunberg has been the recipient of countless accolades and awards, including the Royal Scottish Geographic Society's fellowship, and the prestigious Time magazine named her one of the 100 Most Influential People and the Young Person of the Year in 2019.
In September 2019, she spoke at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York.
Thunberg was also nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Early life
Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and the daughter of opera singer Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg. Olof Thunberg, her paternal grandfather, was a singer and director. Beata is her younger sister.
Thunberg says she first heard of climate change in 2011 when she was eight years old and was unsure why so little was being done about it. The situation made her depressed, and as a result, she stopped talking and eating regularly and dropped ten kilograms (22 lb) in two months. She was eventually diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. Thunberg's first speeches in which she advocated climate change, she described the selective mutism aspect of her illness as meaning she "only speaks when necessary."
Thunberg suffered with depression for nearly four years before starting her school strike campaign. Her parents were not involved in her campaign when she first began protesting. Her father said he does not like her missing school but that "We] respect that she wants to make a stand." She can either sit at home and be really sad, or protest and be content. In May 2015, her mother announced Asperger's Syndrome inсе to help others families in the same situation. Thunberg does not believe her Asperger's illness has "limited me before" and has instead referred to it as "superpower." She was later identified as not only the best-known climate campaigner, but also the most well-known autism campaigner. Thunberg said in 2021 that many people in the Future Movement had autism and that they were very inclusive and welcoming. Many people with autism are now climate activists, and they must tell the truth as they see it: "I know a lot of people who have been sick, and then they have joined the climate campaign or Fridays for Future and have found happiness and a community that they are welcome in," she says. She believes that the best thing that has come out of her activism has been friendship and love.
Thunberg's parents begged her parents to minimize the family's carbon footprint and overall impact on the climate by going vegan, upcycling, and giving up flying. She has tried to show them graphs and data, but her family was told that it was stealing her future if they didn't work out. Because her mother had to abandon her international career as an opera performer, she had to give up flying in part. "To be honest, (her mother) didn't do it to save the earth," she said when questioned by the BBC in December 2019. She did it to save her child because she knew how much it meant to her, and then, how much (Greta) she gained from it as she did it." Thunberg attributes her parents' eventual response and lifestyle changes with a sense of hope and determination that she could make a difference. When asked in September 2021 whether she felt guilty of ending her mother's career, she was surprised: "It was her choice." I didn't make her do anything. "I just gave her the facts to support her decision." In the 2018 book Scenes from the Heart, with contributions from the children and a planet in Crisis, the family's story is chronicled, with the whole family credited as authors.
Thunberg attended Franska Skolan, a private school in central Stockholm, from 2010 to 2018, after which she transferred to Kringlaskolan, a school in Södertälje.