Climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine’s 2019 Person of the Year, while Disney CEO Bob Iger and pop star Lizzo have also been feted. 16-year old Thunberg, who address…
16-year old Thunberg, who addressed the United Nations Climate Change conference in 2018 and this year helped organise multi-city climate protests, heralded the teens work to save the planet.“For decades, researchers and activists have struggled to get world leaders to take the climate threat seriously. But this year, an unlikely teenager somehow got the world’s attention,” it noted.
Iger was named Business Person of the Year, helped by the Hollywood’s studio Disney+ launch, the release of his memoir and the company’s box-office success, ahead of the release of“Not since somebody figured out that you could attach two black plastic disks to a skull cap and make everyone look like Mickey Mouse has a pair of ears sent such a buzz through a media executive,” Time said.
Meanwhile, Lizzo was named Entertainer of the Year, breaking through with songs such as Good As Hell and Juice and the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team was named as Athletes of the Year.
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