More recently, the climate fighter made headlines with a Twitter dispute. After the big hype in 2019, things have calmed down around them. In October 2022 he presented his “Climate Book”.
At 20, climate activist Greta Thunberg has long been an icon. An icon with braided braids and a simple sign, which, aged 15, she held up a mirror to the adult world with her initially lonely “school strikes for the climate” in front of the Swedish Parliament. “No one is too small to make a difference,” she declared, inspiring millions to protest climate change.
When Thunberg first heard about global warming at the age of eight, her worries ended in depression, she says. But instead of giving up, the young Swede starts to fight. The Fridays for Future climate movement grew out of his solo protest. The teenager creates what many climate researchers have failed to do before: Thunberg rocks the world. She is no longer a child, but an insightful and uncompromising young woman.
admiration and hate
The activist describes having Asperger’s, a form of autism, as an advantage: For her, there’s only black and white, she doesn’t know gray areas. What she does, she does whole. Saving a little bit of the world is simply not possible. Thunberg lives vegan, forgoing new clothes and air travel. Her compatriot Abba star Björn Ulvaeus once called her “a defiant and deeply thoughtful Pippi Longstocking”.
Thunberg not only admires his consistent words and actions, but also a lot of hate, particularly on the Internet. Thunberg is more concerned about the reaction of politicians to her activism. She tells a Danish journalist that the refusal to visualize the climate crisis has often frightened those in power.
focus on the subject
For several years now, the Swede has been trying to change her focus from her person to the cause she fights for. After the big hype in 2019, things have calmed down around her. In October 2022, with the support of leading experts from around the world, Thunberg will publish a 500-page “Climate Book” – a kind of reference work on the climate crisis. “The world has a fever,” writes Thunberg in it.
Nothing is known about how the 20-year-old celebrates her birthday. However, she hasn’t completely withdrawn from the public eye. In late December, she attracted attention with a Twitter skirmish with influencer Andrew Tate. Tate bragged about his cars and wrote to Thunberg, “Please give me your email address so I can send you a complete list of my car collection and huge emissions.” The Swede replied (originally in English): “Yes, please enlighten me, write me at [email protected].” Her tweet had 3.9 million likes.
(APA/dpa)