Meet the teen climate activist who just won an Amnesty prize

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“To act on your conscience means that you fight for what you think is right.”

Sweden’s teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was Friday awarded a prestigious Amnesty International prize for mobilising world public opinion on the looming peril of global warming.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a climate march in Vienna, Austria on May 31, 2019. / Austria OUT Last week, she appeared alongside actor and former politician Arnold Schwarzenegger at a conference in Austria discussing ways to tackle climate change. “Every young person taking part in ‘Fridays for Future’ embodies what it means to act on your conscience. They remind us that we are more powerful than we know and that we all have a role to play in protecting human rights against climate catastrophe,” he said.Her agenda includes a UN climate change summit in September and a UN climate conference in Chile in December that both pose a quandary for Thunberg, who eschews air travel because of the carbon footprint it leaves.

 

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