Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg a teenager from Sweden leads a Global youth Movement that works for a cause to spread awareness about the climate change.

Her actions started with a solitary strike outside the Sweden Parliament and now she has managed to bring together millions of students and workers on the streets demanding action on climate change.

Thunberg states that she was 7 to 8 years old when she came across the climate change. She was curious about how the planet is facing such a major issue and nobody is actually doing anything about it. Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was eight years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it. The situation made her depressed and as a result, at the age of 11, she stopped talking and eating much and lost ten kilograms in two months. Eventually, she was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. Thunberg left her childhood behind just to make people aware about the crisis this world is going through. She did it selflessly and for an actual change.

Thunberg struggled with depression for almost four years before she began her school strike campaign When she started protesting, her parents did not support her activism.  

The other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together they organized a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world.

While asked about whether she would meet the President, Greta asks why would she do that. As the crisis is right in the front and the President got no answers to it.

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. Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect". She received numerous honors 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.