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Jan 23, 2020
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Greta Thunberg
ou’d have had to have been living underground not to have heard of the spunky, straight-talking Swedish teenage activist who spearheaded the school strike movement. Since she first walked out of lessons to sit outside the Swedish Parliament in August 2018, 16-year-old Greta has spoken at climate rallies around Europe, at the World Economic Forum and in front of the European Parliament, inspiring millions worldwide to join her Friday school strikes. In August 2019, Greta sailed across the Atlantic in a zero-carbon boat to attend a United Nations climate summit in New York. Speaking before UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, she accused world leaders of ‘stealing my dreams and childhood
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