In less than 12 months, Swedish teenage girl Greta Thunberg has become one of the most influential people in the world. Thunberg began the global environmental movement of the decade in 2010-2019. She lobbied for the fight against climate change and its potentially disastrous consequences. The girl criticized politicians and invited children and adults, adolescents and the elderly to change their daily habits in order to protect planet Earth.
Symbol of the fight for ecology
Today, Greta Tunberg is both a heroine, an icon, a role model and an idol. Nevertheless, she is often accused of lobbying for the interests of the eco-business. Take a look at the most interesting personal facts about Swedish environmentalist Grete Thunberg.
Personal profile
Full name - Greta Tintin, Eleanor, Hernman Tunberg. She was born on January 3, 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a sister named Beata Tunberg. Greta's mother, Sarah Magdalena Hernman, is a Swedish opera singer. Her father, Svante Thunberg, is a Swedish actor named after Svante Arrhenius, a scientist and Nobel Prize laureate.
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In August 2014, when Greta Tunberg was only 11 years old, she suddenly stopped eating, talking and reading. The Swedish activist was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and selective mutism. Greta Tunberg does not see her Asperger Syndrome as a disease.
The Swede has two dogs - Roxy and Moses. Thunberg loves to read, chat with family and walk.
Activist career
The girl started her environmental company in August 2018, when she was 15 years old. She began to hold rallies near the Swedish parliament with the poster Skolstrejk för Klimatet (“School Climate Strike”).
A young Swedish activist said she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was only eight years old.
Because of the strike, Greta missed about three weeks at school until she caught the attention of the Swedish parliament.
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Greta Tunberg is one of the leading members of the Friday for the Future (FFF) movement, a global international movement for students who skip school to participate in demonstrations.
The hashtags #fridaysforfuture and #climatestrike have become the worldwide symbols of the popular Tunberg campaign.
The first global strike took place on March 15, 2019 and brought together about 1.4 million participants.
Greta called Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, one of her main inspirers. In the 1950s, Rosa led the civil rights movement, which improved life.
Greta was able to convince her mother to quit her opera career due to the environmental impact of aviation.
Ever since Greta became an environmental activist, her parents became vegans, started using their bicycles and stopped flying on airplanes.
In May 2019, Time introduced the Swedish girl on the cover of the magazine and named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.
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Healthy and happy from birth: the girl was born 02/02/2020 at 20:02Thunberg is a supporter of the Extinction movement, a non-violent, environmental movement for civil disobedience, founded in May 2019 by Roger Hallam and Gail Bradbrook.
Greta decided to take school leave to focus on her environmental activities.
The girl said that her teachers in Sweden were divided in the view that she had missed classes to support her campaign.
In June 2019, Swedish Railways announced that the number of Swedes using the train for domestic flights increased by eight percent compared to the same period last year.
