Greta Thunberg was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 3 January 2003. She is a Swedish environmental activist.
She is famous for challenging leaders all over the world to take immediate actions against climate change alleviation.
Greta’s full name is Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg. Her grandfather Olof Thunberg was an actor and director, her father Svante Thunberg is an actor and Her mother Malena Emman is an opera singer
Greta Thunberg’s climate activism initiated by persuading her parents to lifestyle choices that decreased their own carbon footprint.
At the age of 15 (2018), She started quitting her school days and started to sit outside the Swedish parliament, and started to call for stronger climate change action by holding up a signboard reading (Skolstrejk för climate). which means School Strike for Climate. Very Soon other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together they organized a school climate strike movement named Fridays for Future.
After Greta attended the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2018, student strikes were taken every week all over the world.
there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests in 2019 involving over a million students each. To avoid energy-intensive flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended Union Climate Action Summit
In her speech there her sentences “how dare you”, was widely famous
Greta Thunberg Quotes
- At first, when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilization, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. – Greta Thunberg
- I don’t really like being in the center of attention. I’m not used to that. All my life I have been like the invisible girl at the back that no one sees or listens to.– Greta Thunberg
- For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything to fight the climate crisis, but we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. We are striking because we have done our homework and they have not. – Greta Thunberg
- We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change – and it has to start today. – Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg Famous Quotes
- I often talk to people who say, ‘No, we have to be hopeful and to inspire each other, and we can’t tell [people] too many negative things . . . But, no — we have to tell it like it is. Because if there are no positive things to tell, then what should we do, should we spread false hope? We can’t do that, we have to tell the truth. – Greta Thunberg
- The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change. – Greta Thunberg
- Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago. – Greta Thunberg
- You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes. – Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg Quotes on Climate Change
- Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly mean nothing to our society? – Greta Thunberg
- I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jets. – Greta Thunberg
- You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. – Greta Thunberg
- When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning! – Greta Thunberg
- We need to get angry and understand what is at stake. And then we need to transform that anger into action and to stand together united and just never give up. – Greta Thunberg
- The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say – we will never forgive you. – – Greta Thunberg at UN Climate Summit, New York, 23 September 2019
- Many people say that Sweden is just a small country, and it doesn’t matter what we do, but I have learned you are never too small to make a difference. – Greta Thunberg
Greta Quotes
- You don’t listen to science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist anymore. – Greta Thunberg
- You lied to us. You gave us false hope. You told us that the future was something to look forward to. And the saddest thing is that most children are not even aware of the fate that awaits us. – Greta Thunberg
- Many of you appear concerned that we are wasting valuable lesson time, but I assure you we will go back to school the moment you start listening to science and give us a future. – Greta Thunberg
- This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no doubt be remembered in history as one of the greatest failures of humankind. – Greta Thunberg
- You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist anymore. Because you did not act in time. – Greta Thunberg
- The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change. – Greta Thunberg
- You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! – Greta Thunberg
- Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not. – Greta Thunberg
Quotes from Greta Thunberg
- I want you to act as if your house is on fire, because it is. – Greta Thunberg
- When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning! – Greta Thunberg
- Given the right circumstances, being different is a superpower. – Greta Thunberg
- Since our leaders are behaving like children, we will have to take the responsibility they should have taken long ago. – Greta Thunberg
- For way too long, the politicians and the people in power have gotten away with not doing anything at all to fight the climate crisis and the ecological crisis. But we will make sure that they will not get away with it any longer. – Greta Thunberg
- We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware. – Greta Thunberg
- If we fail… all our achievements and progress have been for nothing, and all that will remain of our political leaders’ legacy will be the greatest failure of human history. And they will be remembered as the greatest villains of all time, because they have chosen not to listen and not to act. – Greta Thunberg
- Humanity is now standing at a crossroads. We must now decide which path we want to take. How do we want the future living conditions for all living species to be like? – Greta Thunberg