Respect for so much and going the distance...

Challenging "normal people"
and
the world leaders for human-caused #ClimateChange and generally #generation #ignoring people for #profit. (my opinion also)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

#GretaThunberg Respect - Wiki List of why!

Interviewed in December 2019 by the BBC, her father said: "To be honest, [her mother] didn't do it to save the climate. She did it to save her child, because she saw how much it meant to her, and then, when she did that, she saw how much [Greta] grew from that, how much energy she got from it."

Thunberg won a climate change essay competition held by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. In part, she wrote: "I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when I know we are in the greatest crisis in human history?"[

er protest began after the heat waves and wildfires during Sweden's hottest summer in at least 262 years.

Thunberg said her teachers were divided about her missing class to make her point. She says: "As people, they think what I am doing is good, but as teachers, they say I should stop."

2018, Thunberg's activism evolved from a solitary protest to taking part in demonstrations throughout Europe, making several high-profile public speeches, and mobilizing her followers on social media platforms. In December, after Sweden's 2018 general election, Thunberg continued to school strike – but only on Fridays. She inspired school students across the globe to take part in her Friday school strikes. In December alone, more than 20,000 students held strikes in at least 270 cities.

The Indian climate activist who edited the toolkit, Disha Ravi, was arrested under the charges of sedition and criminal conspiracy on 16 February 2021.

In a short meeting with Thunberg, Pope Francis thanked her and encouraged her to continue her activism.[70]

In August 2019, Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Plymouth, England, to New York City, in the 60-foot (18 m) racing yacht Malizia II, equipped with solar panels and underwater turbines.The voyage took 15 days, from 14 to 28 August 2019. France 24 reported that several crew members would fly to New York to sail the Malizia II yacht back to Europe.[75]

On Thunberg's return voyage aboard the La Vagabonde catamaran, she was quoted that she chose sailing as a way to send a message to the world that there is no real sustainable option to travel across the oceans.

Paris Agreement pledges: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey.[81][82] The complaint challenged these countries under the Third Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Protocol is a quasi-judicial mechanism that allows children or their representatives, who believe their rights have been violated, to bring a complaint before the relevant "treaty body", the Committee on the Rights of the Child.[83] If the complaint succeeds, the countries will be asked to respond, but any suggestions are not legally binding.

Thunberg's keynote speech began by acknowledging that she was standing on land that originally belonged to #Indigenous peoples...

"My message to the Americans is the same as to everyone – that is to unite behind the science and to act on the science."

2022, Thunberg criticized the European Parliament for voting to label fossil gas and nuclear energy as "green" energy.

2023, the Nacka District Court allowed the class action lawsuit that posits Sweden has an "insufficient climate policy" to proceed.

2022, Thunberg's The Climate Book[136] was released. It is a compilation in which she brought together over one hundred experts—geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders—who wrote essays focusing on changes to the Earth's climate.

2023, Thunberg spoke during a protest in Lützerath, calling on the German authorities to stop the expansion of a nearby coal mine.[

On 6 April 2024, Thunberg participated in an Extinction Rebellion-led protest in The Hague, Netherlands, where law enforcement forcibly removed her from blocking a road.

FFF Sweden believes that "means speaking up when people suffer, are forced to flee their homes or are killed – regardless of the cause."

Thunberg has said that climate change will have a disproportionate effect on young people, whose futures will be profoundly affected. She argues that her generation may not have a future any more because "that future was sold so that a small number of people could make unimaginable amounts of money."

Nature doesn't bargain, and you cannot make deals with physics."

2021 COP26 conference in Glasgow, Thunberg said:
"Nothing has changed from previous years, really. The leaders will say, 'we'll do this and we'll do this, and we will put our forces together and achieve this', and then they will do nothing. Maybe some symbolic things and creative accounting and things that don't really have a big impact. We can have as many COPs as we want, but nothing real will come out of it."

COP26. She spoke at some protests during the COP and marched in a Fridays for Future Scotland climate strike on Friday 5 November; she said in an earlier interview that the public needed to "uproot the system"

February 2019, 224 academics signed an open letter of support stating they were inspired by Thunberg's actions and the striking school children in making their voices heard.

CHANGING TWITTER DESCRIPTION WHEN HECKLED (FUNNY)

Thunberg reacted by changing her Twitter bio to match his description,

Thunberg updated her Twitter bio to reflect Putin's description of her.

On the same day, Thunberg changed her Twitter description to pirralha, the Portuguese word for "brat" used by Bolsonaro.

Thunberg addressed the criticism she has received online, saying, "It's quite hilarious when the only thing people can do is mock you, or talk about your appearance or personality, as it means they have no argument or nothing else to say."

Thunberg's detractors have "launched personal attacks", "bash [her] autism", and "increasingly rely on ad hominem attacks to blunt her influence"

the BBC encapsulated her influence: "she is credited with raising public awareness of climate change across the world, especially amongst young people. Many commentators call this 'the Greta effect'"

Google Trends data shows a growth in searches for the term climate emergency (shown in red), and for the term climate crisis (shown in blue). The surge in 2006 followed release of Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth.

In June 2019, a YouGov poll in Britain found that public concern about the environment had soared to record levels in the UK since Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion had "pierced the bubble of denial"

wealthy philanthropists and investors from the United States have donated about $600,000[234] to support Extinction Rebellion and school strike groups to establish the Climate Emergency Fund.[235][236][237] Trevor Neilson, one of the philanthropists, said the three founders would be contacting friends among the global mega-rich to donate "a hundred times" more in the weeks and months ahead.[234] In December 2019, the New Scientist described the impact made by Thunberg and Extinction Rebellion with the headline: "The year the world woke up to climate change.

MUSIC
In May 2020, Thunberg was featured in Pearl Jam's music video "Retrograde". She appears as a fortune teller, with images in her crystal ball depicting startling effects of climate change in numerous countries.

On 3 September 2020, the Hulu cinéma vérité-esque documentary I Am Greta[266] had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The film was directed by Nathan Grossman

In March 2021, the University of Winchester installed a life-sized sculpture of Thunberg on its campus.[271] BBC Studios made a three-part series Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World,

Honours and awards = LOTS!

Species named in Thunberg's honour = A FEW

Works

Scenes from the Heart (2018), with her sister, father and mother.

Thunberg, Greta (2019). No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-241-51457-3. OCLC 1196840691. 96 pages. A collection of Thunberg's climate action speeches,[328] with the earnings being donated to charity.[329]

"Greta Thunberg Speeches and Interviews". What Would Greta Do?. Archived from the original on 6 April 2020. An archived compilation of Thunberg's speeches and interviews, and IPCC Reports, up to March 2020

Thunberg, Greta (November 2019). "The Disarming Case to Act Right Now on Climate Change". Stockholm: TED.
Ernman, Malena; Thunberg, Greta; Ernman, Beata; Thunberg, Svante (2021).

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-199288-4. OCLC 1179047026. 288 pages

Thunberg, Greta; Calderón, Adriana; Jhumu, Farzana Faruk; Njuguna, Eric (2021-08-19).

"Opinion | This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults". The New York Times. ISSN 0362–4331. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

Thunberg, Greta (October 2022). The Climate Book. London, United Kingdom: Allen Lane (Penguin Books). ISBN 978-0-241-54747-2. Hardback.

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Quotes and Wiki Summary
I picked below from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
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After Thunberg's first school strike for the climate, other students engaged in similar protests. They united and organized the school strike for climate movement.

"Make the World Greta Again"

multi-city protests

2019 UN Climate Action Summit speech, Thunberg scolded the world's leaders by exclaiming "How dare you" in reference to their perceived indifference and inaction to the climate crisis.
Her admonishment made worldwide headlines

Thunberg's activism has evolved to include other causes, taking a pro-Palestinian stance in response to the Israel–Hamas war.

"Greta effect" for Thunberg's influence on the world stage

She has received honours and awards, including in Time's 100 most influential people, named the youngest Time Person of the Year in 2019, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019),[17] and nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Her father said he did not like her missing school but added: "She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest and be happy."

Thunberg said that many people in the Fridays for Future movement are #autistic, and very inclusive and welcoming. She thinks that the reason so many autistic people become climate activists is that they cannot look away, and have to tell the truth as they see it. #Autism #AuDHD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg

#GretaThunberg Respect - Wiki List of why! [#Swedish #environmental #activist]

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