{"id":184153,"date":"2019-12-12T23:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/featured\/-1813505\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T23:15:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:15:41","slug":"greta-thunberg-named-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/12\/greta-thunberg-named-time-magazines-person-of-the-year-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg Named Time Magazine\u2019s Person of the Year 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GretaThunberg121219-650x366.jpg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"figcaption\">Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine&#8217;s Person of the Year 2019. (Photo Credit: Clara Margais \/ picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old activist named Time Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Person of the Year 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish schoolgirl who inspired an international movement to fight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/oceans-are-running-out-of-oxygen-due-to-climate-change-1813105\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> is the youngest recipient of the magazine&#8217;s long-running tradition, which began in 1927.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FridaysForFuture?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FridaysForFuture<\/a> movement and climate activists everywhere. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climatestrike?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climatestrike<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2t2JyA6AnM\">https:\/\/t.co\/2t2JyA6AnM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u4JUD4cgCz\">pic.twitter.com\/u4JUD4cgCz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1204795860401434624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Thunberg was just a pigtailed kid camping outside Sweden&#8217;s parliament, demanding reduced carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, she&#8217;s a ponytailed phenom who&#8217;s emboldened students across the world to hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/climate-protesters-delay-harvard-yale-football-game-1811706\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">climate strikes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by the Parkland teen activists in Florida, Thunberg created the Fridays For The Future movement, trading weekly school lessons for regular protests.<\/p>\n<p>Since August 2018, she has spoken at TEDxStockholm, addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, and given a talk to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1088440150630285312\"  rel=\"noopener\">World Economic Forum at Davos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, she was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize [16-year-old climate activist nominated for Peace Prize].<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Climate activist <span class=\"il\">Greta<\/span> Thunberg has succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change,&#8221; Time said of the teenager.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Fresh from speaking at a UN climate change summit in Madrid, Thunberg tweeted her reaction to the tribute (which has previously gone to controversial figures Adolf Hitler [1938], Joseph Stalin [1939 and 1942], and Ayatollah Khomeini [1979]).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Wow, this is unbelievable,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1204795860401434624\"  rel=\"noopener\">she wrote on Wednesday<\/a>, adding that she shares this &#8220;great honor&#8221; with &#8220;everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Thunberg is not a leader of any political party or advocacy group. She is neither the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis nor the most qualified to fix it,&#8221; according to Time reporters Charlotte Alter, Suyin Haynes, and Justin Worland. &#8220;She is not a scientist or a politician. She has no access to traditional levers of influence: she&#8217;s not a billionaire or a princess, a pop star, or even an adult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;She is an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation,&#8221; the magazine article continued. &#8220;By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The busy teen took about five seconds to acknowledge the profile before returning to her regularly scheduled protest programming, urging folks to join <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg\/status\/1204824047730728960\"  rel=\"noopener\">Friday&#8217;s climate strike in Torino, Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Time magazine also recognized public servants as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/guardians-of-the-year-2019-public-servants\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Guardians of the Year<\/a>,\u00a0the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/athlete-of-the-year-2019-us-womens-soccer-team\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Athlete of the Year<\/a>,\u00a0Lizzo as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/entertainer-of-the-year-2019-lizzo\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Entertainer of the Year<\/a> (yaaas, queen!), and Disney CEO Bob Iger as <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/businessperson-of-the-year-2019-bob-iger\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Businessperson of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em><strong>More on Geek.com:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/oceans-are-running-out-of-oxygen-due-to-climate-change-1813105\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Oceans Are Running Out of Oxygen Due to Climate Change<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/culture\/climate-protesters-delay-harvard-yale-football-game-1811706\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Climate Protesters Delay Harvard-Yale Football Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/report-climate-change-is-making-us-sick-1810472\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Report: Climate Change Is Making Us Sick<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/GretaThunberg121219-650x366.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<div>Greta Thunberg is Time Magazine&#8217;s Person of the Year 2019. (Photo Credit: Clara Margais \/ picture alliance via Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old activist named Time Magazine&rsquo;s Person of the Year 2019. 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