Posted on 09/25/2019 1:04:49 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is among four people named Wednesday as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel."
Thunberg is being recognized "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts," the prize foundation said.
Advertisement It added that the 16-year-old, who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, "personifies the notion that everyone has the power to create change. Her example has inspired and empowered people from all walks of life to demand political action."
Created in 1980, the annual Right Livelihood Award honors efforts that the prize founder, Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull, felt were being ignored by the Nobel prizes.
The four winners will each receive $103,000.
The foundation also gave its 2019 award to Davi Kopenawa and the Hutukara Yanomami Association, representing Brazil's indigenous tribe, for protecting the Amazon forest and its people; Moroccan activist Aminatou Haidar "for her steadfast nonviolent action" for Western Sahara and Chinese lawyer Guo Jianmei for her work for women's rights in China.
Ole von Uexkull, the foundation's executive director and nephew of the founder, said "we honor four practical visionaries whose leadership has empowered millions of people to defend their inalienable rights and to strive for a liveable future for all on planet Earth."
An award ceremony is planned in Stockholm on Dec. 4, six days before the Nobel prizes are handed out.
Thunberg said in a statement by the Right Livelihood foundation that "whenever I receive an award, it is not me who is the winner. I am part of a global movement of school children, youth and adults of all ages who have decided to act in defense of our living planet."
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[Greta Thunberg]
Well, she’s as qualified as Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama.
In other words, nothing but a fraud and a poser.
Climate Change Activist, United Nations speaker is an ACTRESS
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3781094/posts
Not bad for an angry little girl with fetal alcohol syndrome.
Helps with the media to have antifa parents...
even more proof the world has gone freakin batchit crazy!!!
It’s a worthless thing... I believe Arafat got one.
That means it’s completely de valued
Now you can get one for showing abject public disrespect for a world leader.
Yeah, I would have thought they would give her an Emmy Award. Maybe that can come later.
So.... ANTIFA has decided to use children as shields , like the Muslims do ?
She’s about as worthy as Obama. Nobel prize...Norwegian humor.
If all it takes is a p$ssed off teen to get nominated to the Nobel prize, I’d like them to meet my granddaughter.
Color me surprised. NOT.
At least Barack Hussein Obama managed to win the US Presidency before he was awarded his Nobel Peace Prize.
What did this young lady do? Sailed across the Atlantic and spouted off at the US Congress and the UN General Assembly. Although she did mouth some remotely plausible platitudes, just as Obama was prone to do.
Surprised no one here has mentioned Algore and his Peace Prize.
She’s an idiot savante’
Down’s Syndrome...
“:^)
But she’s so angry....not at all peaceful. Should a “Peace Prize” be awarded to someone like that? I think not.
it is not me... but i will keep the money.
VERY misleading headline!
This is NOT the Nobel Peace Prize!
It is an “Alternative Nobel!”
MORE FAKE NEWS!
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