https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5 en-us 2022-03-25 18:07:13 UTC 2025-04-26 17:56:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 22anvaz01 https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114293105 Greta Thunberg as was born on January 3, 2003 in Stockholm, Sweden. Greta Thunberg’s mother was an opera singer while her father was an actor. She first learned about climate change around age 8. She focused deeply on climate change a little after she first learned about it. She changed some of her habits in becoming a vegan and refusing to rude on an airplane because livestock and airplanes contribute a lot to global warming.]]> 2022-03-25 18:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114293105 22anvaz01 https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114306567 Greta Thunberg was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, which is considered an autism spectrum disorder. Her Asperger syndrome is also accompanied by obsessive compulsive disorder, but she still found a way to persevere and used these to motivate herself to work harder and voice out her opinions of climate change.]]> 2022-03-25 18:32:59 UTC https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114306567 22anvaz01 https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114453846 Greta Thunberg is known for protesting outside the Swedish parliament in 2018 while holding a sign that read, "School Strike for Climate." She skipped school on Fridays to protest. "Fridays For Future" was launched in which many youths in Europe pressured leaders and lawmakers to act on climate change as they did walkouts. She was invited to speak at numerous rallies in Stockholm, London, and Brussels. In December 2018, she gave a speech at the United Nations COP24 in Katowice, Poland. She was also invited to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City and met with former President Barack Obama and spoke before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Select Committee in Washington D.C. She then walked with millions of protesters in New York City to demand climate action at the New York City Global Climate Strike.]]> 2022-03-25 21:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114453846 22anvaz01 https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114457952 I chose Greta Thunberg because she was very involved and outspoken about climate change. She was extremely passionate about this one topic and it inspired me to strive to be as passionate about something as she was about climate change and global warming. She stood out to me because she is a public figure who started being involved at such a young age and overcame adversities and can do all of these things with her Asperger syndrome and her obsessive compulsive disorder. She is an inspiring young woman.]]> 2022-03-25 21:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2114457952 22anvaz01 https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2116046287 Greta Thunberg has won the Glamour Award for the Revolutionary, Shorty Award for Best in Activism, she was TIME Magazine's youngest person of the year, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice, and founded Fridays For Future. She also won the Ambassador of Conscience Award, the Rachel Carson Prize, the German Gloden Camera award, and the Swedish Woman of the Year award.]]> 2022-03-28 00:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/22anvaz01/3uhvdif3fywz5ir5/wish/2116046287