Greta Thunberg

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Greta Thunberg at a meeting of the European Parliament's Environment Committee in Brussels (March 4, 2020)

Listen to Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg [ ˈɡreːˌta ˈtʉːnˌbærj ] ? / i (born January 3, 2003 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish climate protection activist . Their commitment to a climate policy that is consistently based on scientific findings is recognized worldwide. The “school strikes for the climate” initiated by her have grown into the global movement “ Fridays for Future ” (FFF). With the school strikes , she wants Sweden to comply with the Paris Agreement . Audio file / audio sample

The representative of the international climate protection movement was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2019 and was voted Person of the Year by Time magazine .

Life

Greta Thunberg is the older of two daughters of the opera singer Malena Ernman and the actor Svante Thunberg . Her grandparents include the actors Olof Thunberg (1925–2020) and Mona Andersson (* 1936). She first learned about climate change when she was eight years old at school; after that she began to read more and more about it. She developed depression and was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome at the age of 12 . Her subsequent climate engagement helped her overcome eating disorders and depression. She began by turning off the lights in the house to save energy . Later, she decided not to fly and vegan to feed, and convinced her family about it.

In May 2018, the then fifteen-year-old Thunberg prizewinner in a writing competition on environmental policy initiated by Svenska Dagbladet . According to Thunberg, the publication of her contribution made contact with various people who inspired her to get involved. Shortly afterwards, she began to actively campaign for climate protection in public. She told The New Yorker : “I see the world a little differently, from a different perspective. I have a special interest . It is very common that people in the autism spectrum have a special interest. ” She added to ZDF :“ And I don't like it when people say one thing and do the other. ”She worked together with her father and younger sister on the book Scener ur hjärtat ( German  "Scenes from the Heart" ) published in 2018 by her mother Malena Ernman.

In the 2018/2019 school year, Thunberg was in the final year of the 9-year elementary school , which she graduated with excellent grades despite her school strike. On May 31, 2019, on the sidelines of a demonstration in Vienna , she announced that she would initially suspend school for one year after graduation ( gap year ) because she could not combine climate activism and school attendance. A compulsory education applies to them no more, it ends in Sweden after nine years. In August 2020, Greta Thunberg went back to school in the first grade of a Stockholm high school . Her re-entry was half a week late because she was demonstrating in Berlin beforehand.

Positions

Thunberg in Brussels (October 6, 2018, Swedish with English subtitles)

Thunberg's core position is that politicians are doing far too little for climate protection and are therefore acting irresponsibly, especially towards young people. She calls for a considerable intensification of climate protection efforts worldwide and wants to keep the strike until her home country Sweden reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 15% per year. She argues that Sweden, as a rich country, has an obligation to reduce emissions faster than other countries.

Thunberg argues that the biosphere is being sacrificed so that rich people in countries like Sweden can live in luxury . It points to global injustice and the extinction of species caused by humans . She calls for countries like Sweden and the UK to start reducing their emissions from burning fossil fuels by 15% a year. In order to strive for global justice in accordance with the Paris Climate Agreement , rich countries should reduce their emissions to zero within six to twelve years, thus enabling countries like India and Nigeria to build infrastructure. The people were supposed to bring about a system change through civil disobedience , so that no more oil would be produced.

With reference to the climate conferences that have taken place annually since 1995 and the nonetheless rising greenhouse gas emissions, she sees political failure . Among other things, she spoke at the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice in 2018 and emphasized the severity of the climate crisis, which has not yet been understood: Politicians behave irresponsibly and like small children, so it is now up to the younger generation to take their future into their own hands to take and do what politics should have done a long time ago. It is up to the youth to understand what the older generation has done to them with climate change and to clean up the chaos their generation has to live with. Therefore, young people now have to make sure that their voices are heard. On the other hand, she will no longer beg the top politicians to take care of the future of the younger generation. Rather, it will make it clear to them that changes will be made, whether they want to or not. Their own protest, which was quickly copied all over the world, shows that nobody is too insignificant to make a difference.

“What I hope we achieve at this conference is that we realize that we are facing an existential threat. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. First we have to realize this and then as fast as possible do something to stop the emissions and try to save what we can save. "

“What I hope to achieve at this conference is the realization that we are facing an existential threat. This is the greatest crisis humanity has ever found itself in. First we have to recognize this and then do something as soon as possible to stop the emissions and try to save what we can save. "

- Greta Thunberg at the UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice 2018 : Quoted in: The Guardian , December 4, 2018

She sees her climate protection campaigns as more important than going to school. Addressing other students, she said that they shouldn't go on strike, that everyone should decide for themselves. However, she asked herself what the point is in studying in school for a future that may soon no longer exist. Therefore, the strike is more important to them than school. She catches up on the material she missed outside of class.

“Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis'. But 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. "

“Some people say that I should study to become a climate scientist so that I can 'solve the climate crisis'. But the climate crisis has already been resolved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change. "

- Greta Thunberg : Speech at the "Declaration of Rebellion" in London October 31, 2018

As a reason for her school strike, in which she neglected compulsory schooling, she cited the adults' forgetting about the future.

“We children often don't do what adults ask of us. But we imitate you. And because you adults are not interested in my future, I will disregard your rules. "

- Greta Thunberg : Quoted in: Der Tagesspiegel , December 3, 2018

She describes her self-image and the motives for her actions more pointedly on a flyer:

“We children don't usually do what adults tell us. We follow them. And after you give a shit about my future, I also give a shit about it. "

- Greta Thunberg : Quoted in: Zeit Online , January 30, 2019.

Out of flight shame and thus to avoid CO 2 emissions from air travel, Greta Thunberg also travels to far-away events by train or in an electric car. In 2018, she withdrew her participation as a finalist for the children's and youth climate award of the energy supply company Telge Energi, because the other finalists and their companions were supposed to fly to Stockholm by plane, but the generation of adults had already used up the CO 2 budget .

After over 1.4 million schoolchildren had demonstrated in various cities worldwide on March 15, 2019, Thunberg appealed to solve the climate crisis to look at the bigger picture and to be guided by the best available science.

Thunberg wrote on Facebook in March 2019 that nuclear energy could be a small part of a new carbon-free energy solution, but that she considers nuclear energy to be "extremely dangerous, expensive and time-consuming". After numerous reactions and what she felt was “ cherry picking ” of her statement by the media and citizens, she specified that the first part of the sentence reflected the assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) and that she was personally against nuclear power.

In an interview published on February 2, 2019 with Spiegel Online , Greta Thunberg answered the question “In your opinion, is democracy still the right system to avert the crisis? Or do you want some kind of eco-dictatorship? "With the words:" Our democracy is all we have. We mustn't sacrifice them. And that is precisely why we have to act now: within our democratic system. "

On the Ellen DeGeneres Show on November 1, 2019, she said a meeting with US President Trump would be a waste of time because she couldn't tell him anything he hadn't already heard. Asked by Ellen DeGeneres about her autism, she confirmed that she saw the diagnosis as a gift: “In a crisis like this, we need people who can think differently.” When asked what she does herself, she mentioned four points: She stopped fly, she is vegan, has set herself a shop stop , so only buy the bare essentials and she puts pressure on people in positions of power.

Act

Thunberg in front of the Swedish Parliament building in Stockholm in August 2018

Climate strike movement

Thunberg's climate activism began during the 2018 drought and heat wave that hit large parts of Europe, and three weeks before the Swedish parliamentary elections . On August 20, 2018, the first day of school after the holidays, she placed herself in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm with a sign saying “Skolstrejk för klimatet” (“School strike for the climate”) . At first she acted alone. On the first day, several Swedish media reported on Thunberg, including the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet on its website and the newspaper Expressen . The next day, Thunberg was featured on the cover of the Stockholm regional edition of Dagens Nyheter . Thunberg reported on her action on her Twitter account, which, however, according to an evaluation of the ARD Tagesschau's fact finder online portal, was very rarely used at the time and was not widely used. In Germany, Die Tageszeitung published its first report on August 27th . Both her parents and teachers criticized her strike, but did not stop it, according to the reports. She carried out this school strike every day until the election to the Swedish Reichstag on September 9, 2018, and only once a week on Friday after the Reichstag election.

She demonstrated her ability to inspire crowds (including not only teenagers and young adults) during an appearance at Extinction Rebellion in London on October 31, 2018.

As a climate striker, Greta Thunberg found imitators from November 2018, initially in Sweden, where schoolchildren soon joined their protest in front of the town halls of around a hundred Swedish municipalities. Similar actions followed in Australia , Belgium , France , Finland and Denmark, among others . The young people, who liked Thunberg's message that the future should not be stolen from them, were and still do, organize themselves under the hashtag #FridaysForFuture .

In Australia, more than 10,000 students went on strike on November 30, 2018 against climate change. On that day, in Belgium alone, there were more than 1,000 schoolchildren who went on strike against climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison commented on developments in his country with the words: "We want more learning and less activism in school." The children should go to school. Thunberg replied via Twitter: “Sorry, Mr Morrison. We cannot fulfill. ”In February 2019, the then British Prime Minister Theresa May argued in a similar way to her Australian counterpart . By the beginning of December 2018, more than 20,000 students in around 270 cities around the world had joined the call. In Germany, too, students struck classes in various cities.

Thunberg, meanwhile an idol of the climate protection movement, appeared in the following months at protest events in different European countries.

On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference , the German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated that there was a connection between the rising student protests in Germany and the " hybrid warfare " [of Russia]. A reason for "that suddenly all German children - after years without, so to speak, any external influence - come up with the idea that this protest has to be made," she could not recognize. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert denied this reading shortly afterwards on Twitter. Greta Thunberg interpreted Merkel's statement as an unfortunate formulation. The problem, however, is the pattern that all sorts of topics are discussed in connection with the school strikes, but not climate change, which is ultimately the cause. Thunberg contradicted the thesis that there was no “external influence” for the school strikes, pointing out that the world's leading elite had been informed about the existential significance of the climate crisis for decades and had basically remained inactive.

On April 22, 2019, Greta Thunberg intensified her criticism of the politicians and other powerful people in London: “For far too long the politicians and the people in power stood in the way without doing anything to fight the climate and ecological crisis . ... But we'll make sure they can't get away with it any longer. "

UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice 2018

In December 2018, she and her father traveled to Poland in an electric car to the UN climate conference in Katowice . There she met with the UN Secretary General António Guterres . She made an appeal to him and later gave a speech in the summit's plenary hall. This speech was then shared virally on the Internet . As a result, Thunberg was criticized, attacked or defamed as "ideologically blinded" by climate change deniers and right-wing politicians , among others .

World Economic Forum Davos 2019

From January 23 to 25, 2019, Greta Thunberg took part in the 49th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum . The day before she left Sweden for Davos . To avoid the high CO 2 emissions of a flight , she took the train .

In Davos she met prominent forum participants such as Christine Lagarde ( IWF ), the musician Bono and the behavioral scientist Jane Goodall . The session Preparing for Climate Disruption, in which Greta Thunberg was able to participate, took place on Friday morning, when many influential participants had already left, and discussions were only held behind closed doors in a room with 58 seats. In the question and answer session that followed, Greta Thunberg stated that she had not found the representatives of the oil and gas industry to whom she would have liked to personally explain her “crimes against humanity” at the conference. Her appearance, especially on Twitter , resulted in discrediting comments mainly from men of the right-wing spectrum. These were often targeted based on their age, gender, and Asperger's syndrome. This is an attempt to devalue Thunberg as a "person and individual" in order to prevent a discussion on equal terms with her arguments. Most of the content-related criticism of Thunberg's positions did not take place in such comments.

European Union

Greta Thunberg speaks to the President of the European Parliament , Antonio Tajani (2019)

On February 21, 2019, Thunberg addressed the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. She called for the EU to reduce CO 2 emissions by at least 80 percent by 2030. The aviation and shipping sectors should not be left out. She referred to the warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to whose current knowledge temperatures could rise by three to four degrees.

Jean-Claude Juncker , President of the European Commission , welcomed Greta Thunberg in Brussels. Without naming Thunberg, he said that even as a young person he only demonstrated in his spare time.

On April 16, 2019, Thunberg spoke to the Environment Committee. She called on MPs to “panic about climate change” and no longer “ waste time on discussions about Brexit ”.

Crossing the Atlantic in an east-west direction

Thunberg at a demonstration for more climate protection in Denver in October 2019

Greta Thunberg participated in the UN climate summit as part of the annual Climate Week NYC from September 23-29, 2019 in New York City and at the United Nations General Assembly . She wanted then to the original in Santiago de Chile planned UN climate conference in 2019 to travel.

At the end of May, she stated that her participation would require a time-consuming journey because she refused to travel by air . She announced a year-long school sabbatical . In July she accepted an offer from the German sailor Boris Herrmann to cross the Atlantic with the sailing yacht Malizia II , whose electrical systems are powered by electricity from hydrogen generators and a photovoltaic system. All applicable harmful activities of the teams Malizia one done by its own account since 2018 climate compensation . On August 14, 2019, the boat with Herrmann, his colleague Pierre Casiraghi , Thunberg, her father and the documentary filmmaker Nathan Grossman left Plymouth for its roughly two-week voyage.

Thunberg in conversation with the US MP Brendan Boyle (2019)

On August 15, 2019, the daily newspaper wrote that Thunberg's Atlantic crossing by sailing yacht caused more greenhouse gas emissions than if the activist and her father had flown to New York. The taz referred to the statement by Andreas Kling, spokesman for the Malizia team, that "about five employees" would return the yacht to Europe, for which they would fly to the USA. In addition, Boris Herrmann will fly back. So there were six flights instead of just two. On the same day, according to the dpa news agency, Kling said that he was aware of this bill. But it is not about saving the climate with the action alone, but about attracting attention. Malizia spokeswoman Holly Cova later stated that four employees would sail the boat back, "two of them will already be in the USA." Apart from Herrmann, his co-skipper Pierre Casiraghi will not be able to sail back due to lack of time.

On August 28, 2019, the climate activist arrived in New York and was greeted by numerous sympathizers. There she was received by 17 sailing boats sent by the UN, each carrying one of the 17 goals for sustainable development envisaged by the United Nations .

At the side of Jamie Margolin and other activists, she testified as a witness before the US Congress in 2019 .

Speech at the UN climate summit

On September 23, 2019, she first met Chancellor Angela Merkel at the UN climate summit in New York and then gave a speech. There, emotionally agitated, she urged the 60 or so heads of state and government present to do more to protect the climate and accused them of abandoning their generation. People would suffer and die. The world was at the beginning of a mass extinction and the only issues politicians talked about were "money and the fairy tales of economic growth that will continue forever". With “their empty words” they would have stolen her “dreams” and “childhood” from her. She was outraged by how dare politicians say they were doing enough; and she just doesn't want to believe politicians when they say they understand the urgency. Because if politicians were not able to act in full awareness of the situation, then they would be "malicious". And she just doesn't want to believe that. At the same time, she asked bitterly, "How dare you believe that this can be solved by going on as before - and with a few technical solutions?" When governments choose to abandon future generations , then they would never forgive them.

Participation in the 25th UN climate conference

Greta Thunberg originally wanted to take part in the 25th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25), which was to take place from December 2 to 13, 2019 in the Chilean capital Santiago de Chile . She was already on her way there and was just in Los Angeles when the President of Chile , Sebastián Piñera , canceled the conference on October 30, 2019. He cited the protests against the government of his country as the reason . Two days later, Madrid was chosen as the new venue. Thunberg tweeted that she had apparently traveled halfway around the world in the wrong direction and asked for help to cross the Atlantic in November. Teresa Ribera , Spain's Minister for Ecological Change, gave her immediate support. Ultimately, however, she took advantage of an offer from the Australian video bloggers Elayna Carausu and Riley Whitelum and started the return journey from Hampton (Virginia) on the east coast of the USA to Europe on November 13, 2019 on their catamaran La Vagabonde . The British professional sailor Nikki Henderson was on board . La Vagabonde reached Lisbon on December 3, 2019, 21 days after taking off from the US east coast . The sailing couple also processed the crossing on film in their YouTube channel.

further activities

Speech at the Earth Strike closing rally in Montréal on September 27, 2019
  • Papal audience: On April 17, 2019, Thunberg took part in the general audience of Pope Francis in Rome, where she showed him a poster that read "Join the climate strike".
  • Speech to the British Parliament: On 23 April 2019 she spoke in front of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . In it, she demanded, among other things, that carbon dioxide emissions should be the decisive criterion for economic decisions and that scientists should be listened to.
  • Thunberg gave a speech at the Brilliant Minds conference from June 13 to 15, 2019 in Stockholm. In it, she clearly emphasized the main responsibility of wealthy people for the climate crisis. In particular, she mentioned politicians, celebrities, and business people who frequently used a private jet.
  • At the final rally of the Earth Strike action week on September 27, 2019 in Montréal , Thunberg spoke to almost half a million participants. She announced: "If the people in power don't take their responsibility, we will."
  • Participation and speech at the World Economic Forum January 2020 in Davos .

reception

Climate researchers

The Briton Kevin Anderson , professor of climate change and energy at the Universities of Manchester and Uppsala , said in an interview: “In conversations with her, I often get the impression that I am discussing with a younger colleague from our institute [...] Greta knows an incredible amount about climate change, and she is constantly learning ", and when asked whether she would listen to him," only if she thinks it's right. "Confronted with a statement by Christian Lindner, he also said:" She is very much an expert - for communication. She manages to summarize vast amounts of information into concise, simple, honest messages. "

The climate researcher Stefan Rahmstorf said that Thunberg recognized more clearly than most what global warming meant for the future of their generation. Thunberg knows science and he would like "more politicians to be as well informed about climate research" as Thunberg.

The climate economist Ottmar Edenhofer said that Thunberg, like her colleagues, knew “the scientific facts exactly” and “could easily compete with the level of knowledge of an average member of the Bundestag”. He would let it depend on a comparative test.

Germany

Greta Thunberg in Berlin (2019)

The publicist and political scientist Albrecht von Lucke sees the strength of Greta Thunberg's appearances primarily due to the "existential seriousness" of her language. Her tone agrees with the seriousness of the current situation and stands in contrast to the irony with which a “pubescent fun society” meets fear of the future. Thunberg's demand to recognize the situation and act accordingly, analyzed von Lucke as "the only reasonable thing".

Felix Finkbeiner , founder of Plant-for-the-Planet , emphasizes that Greta Thunberg succeeded in bringing the topic of the climate crisis to the center of the social discourse. “Now, for the first time, we are talking about the climate crisis every day for weeks. And that is an incredible achievement. "

Der Spiegel writes: With regard to their core concern, Thunberg managed as a young person to motivate older people to change their behavior. This reverses the traditional subject-object relationship in education. The same applies to Felix Finkbeiner, Malala Yousafzai , Genesis Butler and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez .

The Bundestag Lisa Badum ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ), three Norwegian Parliament deputies of the Socialist Left Party and two Swedish politicians nominated her - unsuccessfully - for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, the then but Abiy Ahmed received. Your protest is friendly , peaceful and authentic . The proposal was submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on February 1, 2019 . The left-wing Sosialistisk Venstreparti argued that climate change is causing war and conflict around the world. Thunberg's “Fridays for Future” movement is a very important contribution to peace.

The journalist Bettina Gaus recommended in the daily newspaper , also with regard to the nominations for the Nobel Prize, to perceive the sixteen-year-old as such and to question the "unsettling" media hype, even if she had a concern that she was bitterly serious about and she said hit the right note to convince others and get carried away. The veneration currently shown to Thunberg is reminiscent of religious awakening experiences, but the problem is not with her, "but with many people who react to her".

Regarding Thunberg's Atlantic crossing by racing yacht, Bettina Gaus raised the question of her message. In view of the goal of the climate movement to induce humanity to rethink and change their way of life, it would have made more sense if Thunberg had attended the climate conference via video conference. This would have conveyed the concrete message that flying, traveling is not always necessary for one's own goals. A trip by racing yacht is not an alternative for those who, for. B. would have to travel frequently for professional reasons. Malte Kreutzfeldt states that the trip by racing yacht as a symbol of being able to change the world with individual behavioral changes was called into question by the overall CO 2 balance. Rather, it shows that some problems have to be solved not on an individual level, but collectively, through political measures. In this sense, as an appeal to the world community to invest more in climate protection, their form of travel could still be a strong symbol for the UN climate summit.

Wolfgang Thierse criticized Thunberg's statement that the climate cannot tolerate compromises, contained an “anti-democratic affect”, and noted that politics “only work step by step, always on the path of compromises”. Similar to Thierse, the nature filmmaker David Attenborough expressed himself previously .

Historian Niall Ferguson is generally critical of Thunberg's political concerns and summarizes his views as follows: “'I want you to feel the fear that I feel every day.' That is not the voice of science. It is the voice of the leader of an end-time and redemption movement. "

documentary

The Swedish film producer Fredrik Heinig presented his project for the documentary Greta Vs Climate in March 2019 , and many Swedish media picked up the topic at the end of May 2019.

Rejected appropriation by We Don't Have Time

From August 20, 2018, the Swedish stock corporation We Don't Have Time AB , founded by PR manager and stock market specialist Ingmar Rentzhog in 2017, reported on Thunberg's school strikes on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet Rentzhog said: “I then got in touch with Greta and her family. I then also helped Greta with a lot and used my network of contacts for this. ”According to the brochure, We Don't Have Time AB generates viral environmental content and wants to earn money with it. The company would like to transfer 10 percent of its profits to a charitable fund. In October 2018, Greta Thunberg became an advisor to the company's foundation board without her knowledge. On November 27, 2018, We Don't Have Time AB announced a share issue and used the name "Greta Thunberg" eleven times in the advertising brochure for the IPO. The December share issue raised SEK 10 million . At the end of January 2019, We Don't Have Time AB announced in a press release that Greta Thunberg had left her position as advisor to the Foundation Board. Greta Thunberg's father commented: “She no longer has any connection to it. She doesn't want to be associated with any organization. Whether ideally or not. She wants to be completely free. "

Awards and honors

Dedication names

The beetle species Nelloptodes gretae from the dwarf beetle family was named after Greta Thunberg in 2019 . Name donor is Michael Darby, research fellow at the Natural History Museum , London. Nelloptodes gretae is less than 1 mm long and has no wings or eyes. However, the beetle has two long, braid-like antennae. Michael Darby said he chose the name because he was very impressed with Greta's environmental campaign.

At the beginning of 2020 the small snail species Craspedotropis gretathunbergae was named after Greta Thunberg. It occurs on Borneo and belongs to a group of land snails that are particularly sensitive to the higher temperatures and droughts that can be expected as a result of climate change.

Five species of giant crab spiders were grouped together as the genus Thunberga in mid-2020 , and so named after Greta Thunberg. Among them is a newly described species from Madagascar called Thunberga greta . With this, the spider researcher Peter Jäger from the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research in Frankfurt am Main would like to remind of their commitment against climate change.

In July 2020, the spiders researchers named Jochen Martens from Mainz , a new genus and kind of harvestmen as gretae Thunbergia .

Publications

literature

  • Karin Ceballos Betancur: This girl challenges the world. (Cover story) In: Die Zeit from January 31, 2019, pp. 53, 59–60. ( online, paid )
  • We change the world! Why young people around the world are fighting for a better future. (Cover story) In: Stern from January 31, 2019, pp. 24–35.

Web links

Commons : Greta Thunberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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SURNAME Thunberg, Greta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernman Thunberg, Greta Tintin Eleonora (full name); Ernman Thunberg, Greta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish climate activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 2003
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm