No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

Thunberg shares her second name with the adventuring creation of Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, better known as Hergé.') She has a younger sister, Beata. (As explained by The Week, 'with a thespian father' and singer mother, 'it is perhaps unsurprising that has a slightly unusual name. Her paternal grandfather was actor and director Olof Thunberg. Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of opera singer Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg. She received numerous honours and awards, including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, inclusion in Time 's 100 most influential people, being the youngest Time Person of the Year, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019), and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, 2020, 20. Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the 'Greta effect'. Her sudden rise to world fame made her both a leader in the activist community and a target for critics, especially due to her youth. She speaks fluent English, and most of her public interactions are in English.

Her speech there, in which she exclaimed ' How dare you?', was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music. To avoid carbon-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed on a yacht to North America, where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit.

In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week all around the world. Together, they organized a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward and blunt speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticizes world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her Fridays outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet ( School Strike for Climate). Thunberg's activism began when she persuaded her parents to adopt lifestyle choices that reduced their own carbon footprint. Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg FRSGS ( Swedish: ( listen) born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg