Greta Thunberg: Who is the climate campaigner and what are her aims?

BBC ^ | Nov 6 | By Daniel Kraemer

[RandFan]

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg is in Glasgow, where the COP26 summit is taking place.

The 18-year-old is one of the world's best known climate campaigners.

What has she said about COP26?

Greta Thunberg has called the climate summit a "failure" and a "PR exercise".

She told a youth protest in Glasgow that world leaders had had "26 COPs, they have had decades of blah, blah, blah - and where has that got us?".

She has also criticised goals for cutting emissions which cause global warming, saying: "We don't just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come."

However, Thunberg has avoided getting into the detail of what action should be taken, saying "it is nothing to do with me".

Who is Greta Thunberg?

Thunberg became well-known after she protested outside the Swedish parliament in 2018, when she was 15.

She held a sign saying "School Strike for Climate", to pressure the government to meet carbon emissions targets.

Her small campaign had a global effect, inspiring thousands of young people across the world to organise their own strikes.

By December 2018, more than 20,000 students - from the UK to Japan - had joined her by skipping school to protest.

A year later, she received the first of three Nobel Peace Prize nominations for climate activism.

What is her background?

Thunberg has Asperger syndrome, a developmental disorder, and has described it as a gift. She said being different can be a "superpower".

Thunberg's mother, Malena Ernman, is an opera singer and former Eurovision Song Contest participant.

Her father Svante Thunberg, is an actor and a descendant of the scientist who created a model of the greenhouse effect.

[Lockbox]

Guess the 400 private jets was a bit much........ maybe some could of jet pooled to the Shindig.

[DoodleBob]

When Greta was a minor, I refused to bash her. The real scum are indeed her parents. Mom is a former opera singer and dad is a small time actor. In other words, entertainers who crave the limelight.

Greta, however, suffered from depression and stopped eating, which lead to malnutrition (which is probably why she looks so sickly). Then she was diagnosed with Asperger's and OCD.

Normal parents would love that child and do everything in their power to get her better.

What do these terrible adults do instead? Weaponized and monetize her passion and make her subject to international ridicule and, in some cases, hate and memes.

I will never bash this clearly troubled girl. Her parents should be keelhauled.

[Paal Gulli]

She's a mentally defective child who is being exploited without mercy by the Watermelons.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

Guess the 400 private jets was a bit much........ maybe some could of jet pooled to the Shindig.

Ha ha! True!

(Oh, by the way, don't EVER write the words "could of". That crap is gonna bite you in the butt, one day.)

[Rummyfan]

Such a little rodent....

Eco-Nazi bint...

[windsorknot]