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Greta Thunberg turns eighteen resplendent this Sunday (January 3), becoming one of the prominent figures of global environmentalism and clinging to a powerful discourse that appeals to science without neglecting the emotional component. For the media, accustomed to generating and diluting icons fleetingly, the adolescent with a stern face and transparent gaze has become one of the greatest global phenomena of recent times, supported by an army of admirers and adored by much of the press.
It seems clear that the coronavirus pandemic has somewhat darkened its international glow, but Thunberg, with his prodigious 4.4 million followers on Twitter and more than twice as many on Instagram, retains its role as an emblem that has resulted in the appearance of other ” Greta ”in any country in the world.
Chosen Time Magazine Person of the Year and twice nominated for the Nobel Peace PrizeThunberg has met with Pope Francis and top world leaders and has given speeches at the UN and at major climate summits.
His frequent and prominent presence in the media has generated enmity and has also led to public disagreements with important political figures, such as the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Greta’s premiere in the protests was on August 20, 2018, three weeks before the legislative elections in her country, when she sat in front of the Swedish Parliament to start a daily strike until the Government fulfilled its commitment to cut emissions of the Paris Agreement against climate change.
Agency Greta and Friday For Future
His unique demonstration happened only on Fridays, but received great media attention in Sweden. And thanks to the international significance of her country, in just a few months the young woman had been a guest star at the UN Climate Summit in Poland, the Davos Forum, Brussels and the Elysee Palace in Paris.
Thunberg, who for climatic and “philosophical” reasons only travels by train and bus and never by plane, often led youth demonstrations across Europe and became the image of the “FridaysForFuture” movement and school strikes in all the world.
In the tragic year of the pandemic, the Swedish teenager took a sabbatical year to travel the American continent, arriving on a sailboat powered by solar panels and underwater turbines, owned by millionaire Pierre Casiraghi, son of Carolina de Monaco.
“They have stolen my dreams, my childhood, with their empty words,” he said in September last year at the UN in a famous speech in which he reproached leaders for daring to “look the other way” while scientific evidence warns of a disturbing scenario.
Those terms gave rise to an ironic comment by Trump, who later had several controversies on social networks with Thunberg. Greta wanted to travel to Chile but COP25 was canceled due to health security and the Swedish girl was left halfway in her luxury sailboat that had to reorient the helm towards other ports.
However, the example and the environmental message is still valid for his followers, who surely this Sunday will celebrate the coming of age of the girl who -like the great Mafalda-, grew up crying out to save the world from its own environmental destruction …
Five famous phrases
1. “They are not mature enough to tell it like it is. Even that burden is left to us children.”
2. “I don’t want you to have hope, I want you to panic”
3. “We are facing the sixth mass extinction and the rate of extinction is 10,000 times faster than normal.”
4. “My asperger helps me not to believe lies.”
5 .. “Do you come to us young people looking for hope? How dare you?”
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