Climate activist Greta Thunberg is appearing in court following anti-oil demonstrations in Sweden.
The 20-year-old has become one of the world's best-known campaigners against climate change.Greta Thunberg was born in the Swedish capital Stockholm in 2003 to father Svante, an actor, and mother Ernman, an opera singer.At the age of 11 or 12, she started suffering from depression, according to her father, Svante: "She stopped talking... she stopped going to school," he said.
Five months later, she sailed by yacht across the Atlantic to address a UN climate action summit in New York. In 2022, she brought out The Climate Book, which contains essays from 100 scientists, writers, activists and thinkers on ways to combat the climate crisis.Acting with the group Reclaim the Future, she blocked a road which was used for transporting oil.Shortly afterwards, broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer called her "a half-educated, autistic, doom-mongering eco-cultist," in a tweet that she afterwards deleted.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Greta Gerwig Pushed To Keep This Key Scene In 'Barbie': 'Everything In Me Needs This'Ben Blanchet is a reporter based in New York City. His work has been featured in the New York Post, Insider and The Buffalo News' Sun newspapers. He was born and educated in Upstate New York.
Read more »
Climate change the ‘most common’ reason for portfolio exclusionResearch shows continuing effect on investment decisions, despite a pushback against ‘woke’ capitalism
Read more »
Shona Robison slams Rishi Sunak for 'misleading public' on climate threatEXCLUSIVE: But it comes as aid and relief charity SCIAF warned Scotland's own missed eco targets risked the country losing international 'credibility'.
Read more »
Tackling the climate crisis won’t fuel poverty if polluters to pay their fair share - Olivia BlakeThe Prime Minister has repeatedly said that the UK’s climate policies must be “proportional and pragmatic” - not least during his net-zero-can-kicking speech. In the context of worsening climate breakdown, the only proportional approach is to ask those with the most wealth, and most responsibility for climate change, to pay their fair share. The only pragmatic approach is to act now.
Read more »