Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg Is Time’s Person of the Year 2019

Greta Thunberg is Time's Person of the Year 2019. The 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist started the global climate strike movement when she sat, alone, outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. Now millions of people march to protest the changes. Time wrote that Thunberg "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." Thunberg has addressed the UN and the World Economic Forum, spoken to EU and US lawmakers, and has sparred with US President Donald Trump, while urging people to "listen to scientists."

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