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== Prizes and awards ==
== Prizes and awards ==
Greta Thunberg was one of the winners of [[Svenska Dagbladet]]'s debate article writing competition on the climate for young people in May 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svd.se/vi-vet--och-vi-kan-gora-nagot-nu|title="Vi vet – och vi kan göra något nu" {{!}} SvD|website=SvD.se|language=sv|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> Thunberg was nominated for the electricity company Telge Energi's prize for children and young people who promote sustainable development, ''Children's Climate Prize,'' but declined because the finalists would have to fly to Stockholm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etc.se/klimat/darfor-nobbar-greta-thunberg-klimatpriset|title=Därför nobbar Greta Thunberg klimatpriset|last=Gelin|first=Gustav|date=1 November 2018|website=ETC|language=sv|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> In November 2018, she was awarded the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/greta-thunberg-blir-arets-unga-forebild/|title=Greta Thunberg blir Årets unga förebild|date=22 November 2018|website=Aktuell Hållbarhet|language=sv-SE|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> In December 2018, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named Thunberg one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/5463721/most-influential-teens-2018/|title=TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018|website=Time|language=en|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>
Greta Thunberg was one of the winners of [[Svenska Dagbladet]]'s debate article writing competition on the climate for young people in May 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svd.se/vi-vet--och-vi-kan-gora-nagot-nu|title="Vi vet – och vi kan göra något nu" {{!}} SvD|website=SvD.se|language=sv|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> Thunberg was nominated for the electricity company Telge Energi's prize for children and young people who promote sustainable development, ''Children's Climate Prize,'' but declined because the finalists would have to fly to Stockholm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etc.se/klimat/darfor-nobbar-greta-thunberg-klimatpriset|title=Därför nobbar Greta Thunberg klimatpriset|last=Gelin|first=Gustav|date=1 November 2018|website=ETC|language=sv|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> In November 2018, she was awarded the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aktuellhallbarhet.se/greta-thunberg-blir-arets-unga-forebild/|title=Greta Thunberg blir Årets unga förebild|date=22 November 2018|website=Aktuell Hållbarhet|language=sv-SE|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref> In December 2018, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine named Thunberg one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/5463721/most-influential-teens-2018/|title=TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018|website=Time|language=en|access-date=22 December 2018}}</ref>

== Concerns of Corporate Greenwashing ==

Greta Thunberg responded <ref>https://www.ecowatch.com/greta-thunberg-climate-strike-2627956100.html</ref> to concerns of corporate capture of her message which has been expressed by the Wrong Kind of Green <ref>http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/02/03/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-house-is-on-fire-the-90-trillion-dollar-rescue/ </ref> an Indigenous peoples environmental group. [3] "We attempt to expose those who undermine the People’s Agreement. One role of the non-profit industrial complex is to undermine, marginalize and make irrelevant, the People’s Agreement. The reason being, to protect corporate interests by which they are funded. As well, the non-profit industrial complex protects the industrialized, capitalist economic system, responsible for the capitalist destruction of our shared environment. Those groups who continue to protect such interests must be considered complicit in crimes against humanity."


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 19:18, 11 February 2019

Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg, in 2018
Born (2003-01-03) 3 January 2003 (age 21)
Sweden
Occupation(s)Student and activist
Known forSchool strike for climate outside Swedish Parliament and speaking at the COP24
MovementClimate movement
Relatives

Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈgreːta ˈtʉːnˌbærj]; born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish climate activist. In August 2018, she became a prominent figure for starting the first school strike for climate outside the Swedish parliament building, raising awareness of global warming.[1] In November 2018, she spoke at TEDxStockholm, and in December 2018 she addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Life

Greta Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003.[2] Her mother is Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman and her father is actor Svante Thunberg,[3] who is named after his distant relative Svante Arrhenius.[3][4] Her grandfather is actor and director Olof Thunberg.[5]

In December 2018, Thunberg described herself as having been "diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism".[6] To lower her family's carbon footprint, she insisted they become vegan and give up flying.[7]

Student strikes for climate

Main article: School strike for climate
Sign "Follow Greta! Strike for climate" in Berlin (14 December 2018).

On 20 August 2018, Thunberg, then in ninth grade, decided to not attend school until the 2018 Sweden general election on 9 September after heat waves and wildfires in Sweden.[1] Her demands were that the Swedish government reduce carbon emissions as per the Paris Agreement, and she protested via sitting outside the Riksdag every day during school hours with the sign Skolstrejk för klimatet (school strike for the climate).[8]

After the general elections, she continued to strike only on Fridays, which gained worldwide attention. She inspired school students across the globe to take part in student strikes.[4] As of December 2018, more than 20,000 students held strikes in at least 270 cities.[4]

Other activism

Greta Thunberg participated in the Rise for Climate demonstration outside the European Parliament in Brussels and the Declaration of Rebellion organized by Extinction Rebellion in London.[9]

On 24 November 2018, she spoke at TEDxStockholm.[10][11]

Thunberg addressed the COP24 United Nations climate change summit on December 4, 2018[12] and also spoke before the plenary assembly on December 12, 2018.[13]

On 23 January 2019, Thunberg arrived in Davos after her 32-hour train journey,[14] in contrast to the many delegates who arrived by up to 1,500 individual private jets flights,[15] to continue her climate campaign at the World Economic Forum.[16]

Prizes and awards

Greta Thunberg was one of the winners of Svenska Dagbladet's debate article writing competition on the climate for young people in May 2018.[17] Thunberg was nominated for the electricity company Telge Energi's prize for children and young people who promote sustainable development, Children's Climate Prize, but declined because the finalists would have to fly to Stockholm.[18] In November 2018, she was awarded the Fryshuset scholarship of the Young Role Model of the Year.[19] In December 2018, Time magazine named Thunberg one of the world's 25 most influential teenagers of 2018.[20]

Concerns of Corporate Greenwashing

Greta Thunberg responded [21] to concerns of corporate capture of her message which has been expressed by the Wrong Kind of Green [22] an Indigenous peoples environmental group. [3] "We attempt to expose those who undermine the People’s Agreement. One role of the non-profit industrial complex is to undermine, marginalize and make irrelevant, the People’s Agreement. The reason being, to protect corporate interests by which they are funded. As well, the non-profit industrial complex protects the industrialized, capitalist economic system, responsible for the capitalist destruction of our shared environment. Those groups who continue to protect such interests must be considered complicit in crimes against humanity."

References

  1. ^ a b "The Swedish 15-year-old who's cutting class to fight the climate crisis". The Guardian. 1 September 2018.
  2. ^ Lobbe, Anne-Marie (13 December 2018). "À 15 ans, elle remet les dirigeants mondiaux à leur place!" (in French). Sympatico. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "School Strike for Climate: Meet 15-Year-Old Activist Greta Thunberg, Who Inspired a Global Movement". Democracy Now!.
  4. ^ a b c Damian Carrington (4 December 2018). "'Our leaders are like children', school strike founder tells climate summit". The Guardian.
  5. ^ Santiago, Ellyn (14 December 2018). "Greta Thunberg: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know". Heavy.com. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  6. ^ Greta Thunberg (12 December 2018). School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules. TEDxStockholm. Event occurs at 1:46. Retrieved 29 January 2019. I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrom, OCD, and selective mutism. That basically means I only speak when I think it's necessary. Now is one of those moments... I think that in many ways, we autistic are the normal ones, and the rest of the people are pretty strange, especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis, where everyone keeps saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all and yet they just carry on like before.
  7. ^ "Climate crusading schoolgirl Greta Thunberg pleads next generation's case". The Straits Times. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  8. ^ "The Fifteen-Year-Old Climate Activist Who Is Demanding a New Kind of Politics". The New Yorker. 2 October 2018.
  9. ^ "This Is Our Darkest Hour: With Declaration of Rebellion, New Group Vows Mass Civil Disobedience to Save Planet". Common Dreams. 31 October 2018.
  10. ^ "TEDxStockholm Theme: Wonderland". TED. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  11. ^ Jon, Queally (19 December 2018). "Depressed and Then Diagnosed With Autism, Greta Thunberg Explains Why Hope Cannot Save Planet But Bold Climate Action Still Can". Common Dreams. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
  12. ^ Carrington, Damian (4 December 2018). "'Our leaders are like children', school strike founder tells climate summit". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  13. ^ Thunberg, Greta. "You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World's Inaction on Climate Change". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 13 December 2018.Excerpts, "You only speak of a green eternal economic growth because you are too scared of being unpopular. You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake. You are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden you leave to us children. * * * And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself."
  14. ^ Larson, Nina (24 January 2019). "Time to 'get angry', teen climate activist says in Davos". news.yahoo.com. AFP. Retrieved 24 January 2019. I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jet.
  15. ^ Forrest, Adam (23 January 2019). "Record number of private jets to fly into Davos conference addressing climate change". The Independent. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  16. ^ Kottasova, Ivana; Mackintosh, Eliza (25 January 2019). "Teen activist blames Davos elite for climate crisis". CNN. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  17. ^ ""Vi vet – och vi kan göra något nu" | SvD". SvD.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  18. ^ Gelin, Gustav (1 November 2018). "Därför nobbar Greta Thunberg klimatpriset". ETC (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  19. ^ "Greta Thunberg blir Årets unga förebild". Aktuell Hållbarhet (in Swedish). 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  20. ^ "TIME's 25 Most Influential Teens of 2018". Time. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  21. ^ https://www.ecowatch.com/greta-thunberg-climate-strike-2627956100.html
  22. ^ http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/02/03/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-house-is-on-fire-the-90-trillion-dollar-rescue/

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