Who’s Greta Thunberg? We’ll tell you!

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On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl sat in front of the Swedish Parliament to demand a change in the parameters of the fight against climate change. What looked like a childishness lasted for weeks, late after late, and something began to move: the young people were questioned by their protest and a few thousand have begun to mobilise in more than 300 cities around the world. Greta Thunberg, the little girl’s name, has been invited to the UN headquarters, has met with several world leaders and has become a celebrity.

Greta Thunberg: the voice of the new generations

Greta Thunberg was born in 2003, the result of a marriage between soprano mezzo Malena Emman and actor Svante Thunberg, and was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome (a kind of autism), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and selective mutism in 2015, after a stage in which she suffered a severe depressive episode.

After discovering what was really happening to her, and worried about how she was about certain aspects of climate change, she decided to become vegan, defying a family that had never expressed any special interest in the subject and taking advantage of the specific characteristics of her ailment, among which is the fact of being able to focus on a single issue.

After a few years of campaigning in her home, she started “school strikes” before the Swedish Parliament, sometimes for 6 or 7 hours a day, and started teaching courses on the subject of climate change, becoming an internationally recognised activist.

In recent months, Greta has become world famous for her speeches before various international bodies, in which, with the brazenness that only a child is capable of, she literally chides heads of state, deputies and activists. Recently, these speeches have been published in an anthology called “No one is too young to make a difference”