Greta is a Swedish environmental activist who focuses on the risks posed by climate change. Last year she staged a ‘School Strike For Climate’ in front of the Swedish parliament. Her actions gave her attention after speaking at the UN climate talks in Poland.
Her strikes have inspired people from around the world join her in the Fridays For Future demonstrations.
Following this student strikes increased to the point where the was one every week around the world. In 2019 there were at least 2 protests involving over one million pupils each.
She urges immediate action to address this climate crisis, she is blunt and is straight to the facts that something has to be done and as much as she does not want to believe people don’t care that’s the reality.
She has been featured on Time magazine for all that she does, as a role model for the younger generation.
She was inspired to strike for climate change after school shootings in the US. In 2018 she sent a climate change essay into a competition and was published in a Swedish Newspaper.
In August 2018 she did not attend school until the 2018 swedish general election on September 9th after the heat waves and wildfires during Swedens hottest summer in 262 years.
She demanded the government reduce their carbon emissions and protested by sitting outside Sweden’s National Legislature everyday for 3 weeks, she handed out leaflets stating:
‘ I AM DOING THIS BECAUSE YOU ADULTS ARE SHITTING ON MY FUTURE ‘
GRETA THUNBERG
She has given multiple speeches to express her concerns that global warming is serious and is a crisis
WHAT DO I THINK OF GRETA?
She has so much power and strive for such a young girl, she has become a well known activist recently and her speeches are spreading all over social media. I have listened to some speeches, her determination, passion and seriousness that we are destroying the world is evident within every word. She is battling her autism as well as everyones futures.
STARTER PROJECT 