A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
Greta Thunberg is the most compelling voice on climate change action, the most important issue facing the planet.
Greta celebrated her 20th birthday last Tuesday, January 3.
The Swedish climate activist is well known for challenging world leaders on their environmental policies.
She rose to fame when she started the“school strike for climate” outside the Swedish parliament in 2018.
During her teenage years, Greta Thunberg knew what was at stake. More importantly, she was willing to sacrifice her time, her privacy, her youth, and even her education to fight for the planet.
It all began on a Friday in August 2018, when she stood in front of the Swedish parliament building in protest against the lax governmental response to the climate crisis.
In 2019, Thunberg’s protesting, fundraising and activism made her the youngest person to be given the Time Magazine Person of the Year award.
“She is an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation,” Time wrote in the piece announcing Thunberg’s title. “By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.”
