Greta Thunberg named Time Magazine's Person of the Year

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'She has offered a moral clarion call to those who are willing to act, and hurled shame on those who are not,' Time Magazine said.

The Swedish activist was in Madrid as the award was announced, at a UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming.

"But she has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change. "I want you to panic," she told CEOs and world leaders at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland in January 2019."I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."The daughter of an opera singer mother and an actor-turned-producer father born, Thunberg has faced severe criticism - the latest from Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who dismissed her as a"brat" - and been subjected to a swarm of online conspiracy theory.

Protesters and activist Greta Thunberg participate in the global demonstration"Global strike for future" in central Stockholm Sweden, 15th March, 2019Thunberg "doesn't operate on the same emotional register as many of the people she meets," Time magazine wrote.

 

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