Greatness Of Greta Thunberg: Two Pics Show How The Teen Activist Has Impacted Climate Change
It was August last year when 15-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg camped outside the Swedish parliament. She¡¯d skipped school to stand by herself for hours, holding up a sign protesting climate change. Today, she¡¯s the face of a movement.
It was August last year when 15-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg camped outside the Swedish parliament. She'd skipped school to stand by herself for hours, holding up a sign protesting climate change.
Today, a little over a year later, she's the face of a movement.
Images courtesy: Reuters
This Friday, millions of people around the world participated in the Global Climate Strike. And they were all there because a year ago Greta Thunberg made a stand. And many were awed when they looked back on how much has changed in a year.
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On the left is Thunberg during her solo protest last year, and on the right is the New York turnout for this year's strike.
The Climate Strike this past week saw millions marching across their cities in a multitude of places across the world. All of them were emulating Thunberg's original strike, where she skipped two weeks of school just before the Swedish general elections. Then she stood outside the assembly building, in the rain and cold, with her message to the politicians, "I am doing this because you adults are shitting on my future."
Since then, she's travelled to the UN Climate Summit to school world leaders, sailed across the oceans to promote awareness of global warming, and more. And she's doing this because she rightly wants a better future.
"I would never have predicted or believed that this was going to happen someday. And so fast, only in 15 months," she told AP. "I can't wait to see the official numbers come in. It will be magnificent."
In the meantime, Thunberg is content to keep fighting the good fight until people start seriously thinking about climate change and trying to reverse it.
And she's clearly the best face this ecological movement could have; a child wise beyond her years, fighting for her right to a clean world, and unafraid to chastise the rulers of the world and tell them they're the ones behaving like irresponsible children.
