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Greta Thunberg

 

    

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    Greta Thunberg is an 18-year-old Swedish environmental activist that inspired an international movement for climate action. At the age of 15, Greta skipped school in order to protest at the Swedish Parliament, urging Swedish leaders to take climate action. Soon, other students followed her lead and held protests around the world, leading to her founding the FridaysForFuture movement. Greta has since been invited to multiple conferences urging not only the leaders in her own country but political and financial leaders around the world to take climate action. Her speech at the United Nations Conference (U.N.) September 2019 in New York City included striking words such as "How dare you!" directed towards the ignorance of world leaders towards climate change. Greta has been fearlessly clashing with world leaders and continues to raise awareness about the harmful effects of climate change, often mentioning the words "mass extinction". Greta has received numerous awards and was TIME's 2019 Person of the Year.

    Greta inspires me because of her ability to directly speak out to big figures in the world. Greta displays fearlessness packaged with a sense of the deterioration of the world. Greta's story is inspiring due to the fact that she is simply a person that wants to help the world, from skipping school to protest at the Swedish Parliament to creating an international movement and becoming one of the most well-known environmental activists at a young age is amazing. Greta is a prime example of how simply caring and taking action towards an issue can bring global awareness and a call for action.