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Sputnik International
Greta Thunberg: It just spiralled out of control
13 minutes to read
By: Leslie Hook
Three years after bursting on to the global stage, what s next for the most famous climate activist of her generation? Greta Thunberg turned 18 a few months ago but occasionally she forgets that. I actually can vote now, she grins. But the words we children still sometimes slip into her sentences, out of habit. She is sanguine about the change, but it is a bigger shift than she lets on: that phrase has been a core part of her message.
Thunberg became the world s most celebrated climate activist on the back of this idea: that children have to wake the world up to the reality of climate change. She was just 15 when she started the school strike for climate , for which she skipped classes and sat outside the Swedish parliament at first alone and later with dozens, then hundreds of others every Friday. As the movement grew, aided by Thunberg s speeches, millions of student
President Biden, according to Swedish teen environmental protester Greta Thunberg, isn't doing enough to "treat the climate crisis like a crisis," accusing him of being "not nearly enough in step with the science" on the subject.