Greta Thunberg life until 2020
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Updated: 16 Aug 2022
(Sry for not finishing, but there are TOO many details in her life to be recorded:)
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When Greta was 8 years old, she first hears about climate change and why so little was done about it. She gets depressed about the situation for a long time. Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on this day. Aged 15, she skips school to protest outside parliament for more action against climate change. Greta is joined by fellow students, teachers and parents at another protest and begins attracting media attention for her climate campaign. She is diagnosed with OCD, Asperger's syndrome and selective mutism. Greta begins a regular 'strike' from classes every Friday to protest climate issues. She invites other students to join her weekly "Fridays for Future" campaign by staging walkouts at their own schools. More than 17,000 students in 24 countries take part in Friday school strikes. Thunberg begins speaking at high-profile events across Europe, including U.N. climate talks in Poland. Thunberg is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. The number of students taking part in school strikes hits more than 2 million people across 135 countries. Greta is named one of the world's most influential people by Time magazine, appearing on its cover. "Now I am speaking to the whole world," she wrote on Twitter. She hits back at "hate and conspiracy campaigns" after attacks by some right-wing lawmakers and commentators who questioned her credibility and described her as a "Nobel prize of fear". Greta refuses to fly, and sails from Britain to the United States in a zero-emissions boat to take part in a U.N. climate summit. Meanwhile, the number of climate strikers reaches 3.6 million people across 169 countries. Greta delivers a blistering speech to leaders at the U.N. summit, accusing them of having "stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words". Soon she is named as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize. Caught out by a last-minute switch of location for U.N. climate talks from Chile to Spain, Thunberg hitches a ride on a catamaran boat crossing back to Europe. Despite being bookies' favourite to win, Thunberg misses out of the Nobel Peace Prize which goes to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Greta denounces "clever accounting and creative PR" to mask a lack of real action on climate change in a speech at the U.N. COP25 summit as the 16-year-old became the youngest individual to be Time Magazine's person of the year
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