Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time magazine’s 2019 Person Of The Year by lisettevoytko
who made Time’s shortlist for Person of the Year: Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Facebook chief exec Mark Zuckerberg, the Hong Kong protesters and the anonymous whistleblower who set off Trump’s impeachment inquiry."People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!" said Thunberg during her September United Nations speech.Thunberg’s participation in climate activism began in August 2018. Instead of being in school on Fridays, Thunberg would stand outside of Sweden’s Parliament with a sign reading “skolstrejk för klimatet,” meaning “school strike for the climate.
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