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CNN
17-04-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Greta Thunberg Fast Facts
Here's a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth place: Stockholm, Sweden Birth name: Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg Father: Svante Thunberg, actor Mother: Malena Ernman, opera singer Her name is pronounced grAY-tah tOOn-bairk. Has spoken openly about living with Asperger's, referring to the diagnosis as a 'superpower' that helps her activism. Has said she was inspired by the school walkouts in the United States that followed the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019, the youngest individual to be recognized. Has a species of beetle named after her: 'Nelloptodes gretae.' Thunberg's published books include: 'No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference,' 'The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions' and 'Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis.' August 2018 - Thunberg starts skipping school to stage sit-ins outside Sweden's parliament, holding a sign stating 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' (School Strike for Climate). Soon, others join and the group decides to continue their strike, forming the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement. December 2018 - Thunberg gives a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland, telling negotiators, 'You are not mature enough to tell it like is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.' January 24, 2019 - Thunberg gives an impromptu speech to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. April 17, 2019 - Meets with Pope Francis after his weekly audience at the Vatican. August 28, 2019 - Arrives in New York to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in September after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 15 days on a zero-emissions sailboat to reduce the environmental impact of her journey. September 16, 2019 - Thunberg meets with former US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC. September 18, 2019 - Thunberg appears in front of the US Congress before a hearing on climate change. Instead of prepared remarks, she refers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on global warming, which reported a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. September 20, 2019 - Thunberg speaks at a climate strike in New York, part of a global climate strike organized by Thunberg and other school students. According to Thunberg, 4,638 events are scheduled to take place in 139 countries from September 20-27. September 23, 2019 - Thunberg speaks at the UN Climate Action Summit. 'We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,' Thunberg tells the UN General Assembly. 'How dare you?' Later that day, Thunberg and 15 other children file a complaint with the UN alleging that five of the world's major economies have violated their human rights by not taking adequate action to stop the unfolding climate crisis. December 3, 2019 - Thunberg arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, after nearly three weeks travelling across the Atlantic Ocean on a boat using solar panels and hydro-generators for electricity. December 6, 2019 - Thunberg criticizes world leaders gathered for the COP25 conference in Madrid for not doing enough to stop the ecological crisis. January 29, 2020 - In an Instagram post, announces she is applying for a trademark for her name and the Fridays for Future climate crisis movement she created. By filing for a trademark, something she says she had no prior interest in doing, she intends to protect her movement and its activities. February 25, 2020 - Thunberg meets Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai at the University of Oxford. November 13, 2020 - The documentary 'I Am Greta' premieres on Hulu. September 28, 2021 - Thunberg speaks at the Youth4Climate forum in Milan, Italy, imitating world leaders by repeating their commonly used expressions on the climate crisis, shooting them down as empty words and unfulfilled promises. November 5, 2021 - Leading a youth protest outside the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thunberg criticizes world leaders and calls the summit a 'failure.' January 17, 2023 - Thunberg is detained by German police at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the west German village of Lützerath. She is released later that evening. A police spokesperson tells CNN this is the second time Thunberg had been detained at the site. March 1, 2023 - According to a spokesperson for the Oslo police district, 10 people including Thunberg were removed by police from the entrance of Norway's ministry of finance. Demonstrators blocked access to Norwegian government buildings to protest two windfarms built on Sámi reindeer grazing grounds. July 24, 2023 - A Swedish court fines Thunberg after finding her guilty of disobeying law enforcement, a Malmö City Court spokesperson tells CNN. Thunberg was charged with 'the crime of disobedience to law and order' earlier in July after participating in a protest on June 19 which blocked oil tankers in part of Malmö harbor. Thunberg is fined a total of 2,500 Swedish krona (about $240). October 17, 2023 - Thunberg is arrested at a protest outside the Energy Intelligence Forum, an annual summit that gathers chief executives from oil and gas companies and later charged with a public order offense. She is acquitted on February 2, 2024.
CNN
17-04-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Greta Thunberg Fast Facts
Here's a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth place: Stockholm, Sweden Birth name: Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg Father: Svante Thunberg, actor Mother: Malena Ernman, opera singer Her name is pronounced grAY-tah tOOn-bairk. Has spoken openly about living with Asperger's, referring to the diagnosis as a 'superpower' that helps her activism. Has said she was inspired by the school walkouts in the United States that followed the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2019, the youngest individual to be recognized. Has a species of beetle named after her: 'Nelloptodes gretae.' Thunberg's published books include: 'No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference,' 'The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions' and 'Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis.' August 2018 - Thunberg starts skipping school to stage sit-ins outside Sweden's parliament, holding a sign stating 'Skolstrejk för klimatet' (School Strike for Climate). Soon, others join and the group decides to continue their strike, forming the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement. December 2018 - Thunberg gives a speech at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland, telling negotiators, 'You are not mature enough to tell it like is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.' January 24, 2019 - Thunberg gives an impromptu speech to delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. April 17, 2019 - Meets with Pope Francis after his weekly audience at the Vatican. August 28, 2019 - Arrives in New York to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in September after sailing across the Atlantic Ocean for 15 days on a zero-emissions sailboat to reduce the environmental impact of her journey. September 16, 2019 - Thunberg meets with former US President Barack Obama in Washington, DC. September 18, 2019 - Thunberg appears in front of the US Congress before a hearing on climate change. Instead of prepared remarks, she refers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special report on global warming, which reported a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. September 20, 2019 - Thunberg speaks at a climate strike in New York, part of a global climate strike organized by Thunberg and other school students. According to Thunberg, 4,638 events are scheduled to take place in 139 countries from September 20-27. September 23, 2019 - Thunberg speaks at the UN Climate Action Summit. 'We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,' Thunberg tells the UN General Assembly. 'How dare you?' Later that day, Thunberg and 15 other children file a complaint with the UN alleging that five of the world's major economies have violated their human rights by not taking adequate action to stop the unfolding climate crisis. December 3, 2019 - Thunberg arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, for the 25th UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, after nearly three weeks travelling across the Atlantic Ocean on a boat using solar panels and hydro-generators for electricity. December 6, 2019 - Thunberg criticizes world leaders gathered for the COP25 conference in Madrid for not doing enough to stop the ecological crisis. January 29, 2020 - In an Instagram post, announces she is applying for a trademark for her name and the Fridays for Future climate crisis movement she created. By filing for a trademark, something she says she had no prior interest in doing, she intends to protect her movement and its activities. February 25, 2020 - Thunberg meets Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai at the University of Oxford. November 13, 2020 - The documentary 'I Am Greta' premieres on Hulu. September 28, 2021 - Thunberg speaks at the Youth4Climate forum in Milan, Italy, imitating world leaders by repeating their commonly used expressions on the climate crisis, shooting them down as empty words and unfulfilled promises. November 5, 2021 - Leading a youth protest outside the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thunberg criticizes world leaders and calls the summit a 'failure.' January 17, 2023 - Thunberg is detained by German police at a protest over the expansion of a coal mine in the west German village of Lützerath. She is released later that evening. A police spokesperson tells CNN this is the second time Thunberg had been detained at the site. March 1, 2023 - According to a spokesperson for the Oslo police district, 10 people including Thunberg were removed by police from the entrance of Norway's ministry of finance. Demonstrators blocked access to Norwegian government buildings to protest two windfarms built on Sámi reindeer grazing grounds. July 24, 2023 - A Swedish court fines Thunberg after finding her guilty of disobeying law enforcement, a Malmö City Court spokesperson tells CNN. Thunberg was charged with 'the crime of disobedience to law and order' earlier in July after participating in a protest on June 19 which blocked oil tankers in part of Malmö harbor. Thunberg is fined a total of 2,500 Swedish krona (about $240). October 17, 2023 - Thunberg is arrested at a protest outside the Energy Intelligence Forum, an annual summit that gathers chief executives from oil and gas companies and later charged with a public order offense. She is acquitted on February 2, 2024.
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Gen Z's hypocrisy on climate change has made Greta Thunberg look a fool
At the UN Climate Action Summit of 2019, a 16-year-old Greta Thunberg gave the most famous speech of her young life. I'm sure we all remember. It was the one in which she indignantly squeaked 'How DARE you!' at older generations for ruining their grandchildren's future. 'You are failing us!' she hissed. 'But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: we will never forgive you!' Chastening stuff. In hindsight, however, I can't help feeling that Greta's ire may have been somewhat misplaced. Because it turns out that the young are wrecking the planet, too. In fact, they may be doing even more to wreck it than their grandparents. Just look at the results of a new poll by the Civil Aviation Authority. It found that those aged 18-34 fly a lot more frequently than those aged 55 and over. In the past year, almost three quarters of the former group travelled by plane, compared with only half of the latter group. This may seem unexpected, given that members of Greta's generation are always telling pollsters – and everyone else who will listen – how terrified they are about climate change. But then, perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised. In 2023, a poll by YouGov found that young adults did less recycling than Baby Boomers. They were also less likely to save water, wash their clothes at low temperatures, and switch off electric lights when leaving a room. For Greta, findings such as these must seem terribly embarrassing. Nowadays, admittedly, she appears to spend more of her time ranting about Israel than the climate. But, if she ever gets invited to another UN summit, perhaps she should apologise for her previous speech, thank the old for their efforts – and denounce her own generation, instead. 'You two-faced, selfish brats! See how stupid you've all made me look, with your virtue-signalling hypocrisy! How DARE you!' This year was meant to see the opening of Britain's biggest theme park, just along the road from me in north Kent. The plan ended up being abandoned, however – after it was found that the land was home to a rare species of jumping spider. And protecting the spider was apparently deemed more important than boosting the local economy. Personally I was somewhat taken aback by this news. For the life of me I couldn't see why anyone would be so keen to save the lives of spiders, especially ones that have the ability to jump at us. If anything, I'd have thought, the theme park represented an ideal opportunity to get rid of them. In fact, I would have expected the developers to make this a key plank of their proposal. 'Not only will our theme park create thousands of jobs for local people. It will also eliminate a load of hideous spiders. No more having to fetch an empty glass and a piece of card every time you find some horrible great creepy-crawly in your bathtub. Now it won't get into your house in the first place. Because we're going to drop a roller coaster on its head.' Ultimately, though, the spiders prevailed. And now, it seems, they've won again. Because a plan to build 1,300 new houses and flats in the area has just been blocked – in order to protect the same rare species of jumping spider. Naturally this will come as a blow to Sir Keir Starmer, since he'll find it harder to meet his target of 1.5million new homes by the next election. On the other hand, it's exciting news for people who live in the countryside – not only in north Kent, but everywhere else in Britain. Because now, to prevent their beautiful rural surroundings from being destroyed to make way for ugly new housing estates, villagers across the land will be ringing round the nation's pet shops, zoos and university ecology departments, eager to find out where they can get hold of some of these marvellous jumping spiders. Simply place a few in the local woods and fields, and hey presto. The developers are screwed. Admittedly it might not be easy to meet demand, given that these jumping spiders are so rare. As a result, unscrupulous country-dwellers may be plotting to sneak down to north Kent and kidnap some. In which case, the people of north Kent will have to guard their prized jumping spiders day and night. Because the moment the spiders are gone, the entire area will be covered in houses and theme parks. The potential for conflict doesn't end there, though. The row could lead to furious protests. Not from people, but from other species of spider. Just wait. Any day now we'll see them marching on Whitehall in their millions, demanding that all arachnids be made equal before the law. After all, no one ever blocks a housing development to protect a daddy longlegs. Talk about two-tier justice. Way of the World is a twice-weekly satirical look at the headlines aiming to mock the absurdities of the modern world. It is published at 7am every Tuesday and Saturday Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Gen Z's hypocrisy on climate change has made Greta Thunberg look a fool
At the UN Climate Action Summit of 2019, a 16-year-old Greta Thunberg gave the most famous speech of her young life. I'm sure we all remember. It was the one in which she indignantly squeaked 'How DARE you!' at older generations for ruining their grandchildren's future. 'You are failing us!' she hissed. 'But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: we will never forgive you!' Chastening stuff. In hindsight, however, I can't help feeling that Greta's ire may have been somewhat misplaced. Because it turns out that the young are wrecking the planet, too. In fact, they may be doing even more to wreck it than their grandparents. Just look at the results of a new poll by the Civil Aviation Authority. It found that those aged 18-34 fly a lot more frequently than those aged 55 and over. In the past year, almost three quarters of the former group travelled by plane, compared with only half of the latter group. This may seem unexpected, given that members of Greta's generation are always telling pollsters – and everyone else who will listen – how terrified they are about climate change. But then, perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised. In 2023, a poll by YouGov found that young adults did less recycling than Baby Boomers. They were also less likely to save water, wash their clothes at low temperatures, and switch off electric lights when leaving a room. For Greta, findings such as these must seem terribly embarrassing. Nowadays, admittedly, she appears to spend more of her time ranting about Israel than the climate. But, if she ever gets invited to another UN summit, perhaps she should apologise for her previous speech, thank the old for their efforts – and denounce her own generation, instead. 'You two-faced, selfish brats! See how stupid you've all made me look, with your virtue-signalling hypocrisy! How DARE you!' A cunning new way to save our countryside This year was meant to see the opening of Britain's biggest theme park, just along the road from me in north Kent. The plan ended up being abandoned, however – after it was found that the land was home to a rare species of jumping spider. And protecting the spider was apparently deemed more important than boosting the local economy. Personally I was somewhat taken aback by this news. For the life of me I couldn't see why anyone would be so keen to save the lives of spiders, especially ones that have the ability to jump at us. If anything, I'd have thought, the theme park represented an ideal opportunity to get rid of them. In fact, I would have expected the developers to make this a key plank of their proposal. 'Not only will our theme park create thousands of jobs for local people. It will also eliminate a load of hideous spiders. No more having to fetch an empty glass and a piece of card every time you find some horrible great creepy-crawly in your bathtub. Now it won't get into your house in the first place. Because we're going to drop a roller coaster on its head.' Ultimately, though, the spiders prevailed. And now, it seems, they've won again. Because a plan to build 1,300 new houses and flats in the area has just been blocked – in order to protect the same rare species of jumping spider. Naturally this will come as a blow to Sir Keir Starmer, since he'll find it harder to meet his target of 1.5million new homes by the next election. On the other hand, it's exciting news for people who live in the countryside – not only in north Kent, but everywhere else in Britain. Because now, to prevent their beautiful rural surroundings from being destroyed to make way for ugly new housing estates, villagers across the land will be ringing round the nation's pet shops, zoos and university ecology departments, eager to find out where they can get hold of some of these marvellous jumping spiders. Simply place a few in the local woods and fields, and hey presto. The developers are screwed. Admittedly it might not be easy to meet demand, given that these jumping spiders are so rare. As a result, unscrupulous country-dwellers may be plotting to sneak down to north Kent and kidnap some. In which case, the people of north Kent will have to guard their prized jumping spiders day and night. Because the moment the spiders are gone, the entire area will be covered in houses and theme parks. The potential for conflict doesn't end there, though. The row could lead to furious protests. Not from people, but from other species of spider. Just wait. Any day now we'll see them marching on Whitehall in their millions, demanding that all arachnids be made equal before the law. After all, no one ever blocks a housing development to protect a daddy longlegs. Talk about two-tier justice.
