And since you grown-ups don’t give a shit about my future, I won’t either. In this context, too, it’s worth remembering that the young people who have come of age with Thunberg will start to get the right to vote over the next year or two.To those who know her in real life – including 17-year-old Cork climate activist Saoi O’Connor who is also coming to the end of a year of homeschooling in order to focus on climate activism – it’s difficult to associate the real person with the figure that inspires such vitriol and passion.“I think people expect this larger-than-life figure for me to describe, and honestly, she’s my friend. For the story to have impact, he warns, it has to be real.“Greta takes on the system, she takes on governments, she takes on the United Nations. To comment you must now be an Irish Times subscriber. She simply has bigger things on her mind – namely, what she calls the existential threat facing humanity.It’s also fair to ask what those two years have managed to achieve. Your screen name should follow the standards set out in our We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. “What if a million school children skipped school for the climate and instead sat outside parliaments and town halls? I’m so inspired to see these young people who have way more knowledge than I had at their age,” says O’Sullivan. — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) 1598338814000 “It's deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while millions have also been impacted by the extreme floods. And she’s feeling betrayed by the older generation. They drive older men completely bonkers.“It’s almost hilarious the amount of men in their 40s to 60s who are completely triggered by these schoolgirls. At the end of her second week, the Guardian observed that she was “a diminutive girl with pigtails and a fleeting smile – not the stereotypical leader of a climate revolution”.If she wasn’t the “the stereotypical leader of a climate revolution” in 2018, she is now.

“It is timing definitely” and the deepening urgency of the climate crisis. But we have to look at the emissions curve and it’s still rising.”O’Sullivan gets emotional when she meets young activists.

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She also had a small pile of leaflets, typed up in Comic Sans and held down by a stone.“We kids most often don’t do what you tell us to do. They can’t cope [with the fact] that they are leading this kind of change. There’s no small degree of envy, among activists, scientists and climate researchers, for her ability to mobilise attention behind a climate message some feel they have been shouting into the void for two decades.She has also been the subject of speculation, vitriol and a fair amount of suspicion. Suddenly what we have is a story ... a classic story of intergenerational injustice.“Once a story has a kind of human narrative, it becomes more persuasive than all of those years and years of statistics and scientific build-up of evidence and argument.”This is not something that can be manufactured. But lots of people find that very abstract and not very motivating, and they’re often not persuaded by statistical arguments.”And then, “along comes this young person who is scientifically literate, has read the evidence and has absorbed the impact this has for her generation. Greta Thunberg is going back to school.“It’s hard to believe that the name Greta Thunberg is only known to us for two years,” says Pippa Hackett, Green Party Minister of State for land use and biodiversity.During the two years since she first exploded into public consciousness, Thunberg has given speeches to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York and the European Parliament. There’s a real calmness about her … She has brilliant advice around her, and she has the capacity to assimilate it. These are external links and will open in a new window As it turned out, she smashed that goal by March 15th, 2019, as one million children turned out in 2,200 strikes across 125 counties. She probably didn’t realise the impact she would have in terms of mobilising people. This name will appear beside any comments you post. What has she achieved in two years? Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition, saying it makes her “different”, but that she considers it a “superpower”. They’re remarkable.

“We are a movement that is primarily led by young women, and I think that most of the people who are upset and feel challenged with it are men.“I think that a lot of the backlash against Greta is quite misogynistic.

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