Greta Thunberg has been one of the most vocal climate change advocates in the past couple of years. Despite still being a child when she started her public campaign against climate change and other social issues around this problem. Greta turns 19 this Monday, and as she’s “coming of age” she is still pressing on championing this cause.
Aside from giving then President Donald Trump dirty looks what has the still teen Greta Thunberg really accomplished in her short life so far? You may not remember that her rise to fame actually came from doing something that many students her age potentially dreamed of doing themselves, but never had the courage to do so!
How The Swedish Teen Became A Global Sensation
The Actual Accomplishments That Greta Thunberg Has Achieved
The biggest criticism of Greta though has been that she’s been a bit more talk than action. Although she does travel to her climate change summits via a non emissions generating sailboat. In 2020 she started a non profit organization with 1 million euros that she got as prize money for winning the Right Livelihood Award. The award is essentially known as the poor man’s Nobel Peace Prize.
What Thunberg Has Planned For The Future
“COP26 is a failure and a PR exercise”
At 19 she still potentially has a long career ahead of her. Hopefully she’ll come up with tangible solutions for the climate crisis soon. From the looks of things she’ll continue to protest current measures against climate change that governments have in place.