The 16-year-old first made headlines with her solo strike against global warming outside Sweden's parliament in August 2018.
NEW YORK - Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of conscience for a generation facing the climate change emergency, was named Wednesday as Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year.
Thunberg has taken her disarmingly straightforward message - "listen to the scientists" - to global decision-makers, accusing them of inaction. "But she has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change.
"I want you to panic," she told CEOs and world leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in January 2019. "I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."The daughter of an opera singer mother and an actor-turned-producer father born, Thunberg has faced severe criticism - the latest from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who dismissed her as a "brat" - and been subjected to a swarm of online conspiracy theory.
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