Greta Thunberg Is Time Person of the Year for 2019

Although Ms. Thunberg said she was “grateful” for it, she said the honor should be shared with others taking action against climate change.

“It should be everyone in the Fridays for Future movement because what we have done, we have done together,” she said.

The activist’s rise started in August 2018, when she skipped school to protest climate change outside the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm, where she grew up. Since then, she has become an international fixture, speaking before the United Nations and meeting with numerous heads of state as well as the pope.

[Becoming Greta: from ‘invisible girl’ to global climate activist, with bumps along the way.]

Beyond that, Ms. Thunberg, 16, became a leading face of a movement that has inspired millions of other children in at least 100 countries to argue passionately for action against climate change.

Ms. Thunberg is also known for expressing her anger and dismay with adults who are not, shall we say, on the same page.

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