In August 2018 , then 15 - twelvemonth - honest-to-god Greta Thunberg present her first hit outside the Swedish parliament . By November , the movement had caught on . Kids across Europewent on strike walking out of shoal , trigger what would become thelargest climate protest everheld around the creation . Earlier this year , less than a year after she started campaigning , she was nominated for theNobel Peace Prizefor starting what is now truly a planetary apparent movement .
Over the last calendar month , she ’s seize even more media attention to her cause – the current climate crisis – by sailing ( rather than flying ) across the Atlantic to attend the United Nations mood military action summit in New York , whereshe give a powerful speech that got seen by the human race .
Despite her content being relatively non - controversial – Earth ’s climate is demonstrably changing and we need to do more to prevent cataclysm – and indorse up entirely by scientific discipline , she has drawn the attention and abuse of prominent Internet trolls and actively controversial media figures .
You ’d go for that people would temper their language when talking about someone who is still only a 16 - year - old youngster , but that has not been the lawsuit .
It ’s not just the precise scientific information she is sharing that has been questioned by detractors . She has been attack on the grounds that she , a untested person with Asperger ’s syndrome talking on national television fluently in a 2nd spoken language , save this information intoo much of a monotone , with critics calling her " chilling " and " creepy " . When she chose a sauceboat not a plane to travel to the US to give a talking on how we should be limiting our carbon emanation , spring up adultsmade jokes about her drowning .
She ’s even been likened to Nazi propaganda because she lace her hair .
When she ’s not being attacked by prominent member of the metier , she is regularly asked by the ecumenical public things like " if you ’re so scared of climate change , how come you eat food ? " because she was pictured eat up tiffin . ( Yeah , they ’ve wholly got her there . )
Throughout all this , she has keptrelatively quietabout on her thought on troll . Even when the President of the United States mocked her on Twitter , she merely updated her bio to show how little it bothered her .
Now she has responded to the abuse and conspiracy theory , in a screw thread that ’s go viral .
She got succinctly to the head .
" It seems they will get over every possible line to forefend the focus , since they are so desperate not to speak about the climate and ecological crisis . Being dissimilar is not an unwellness and the current , well available scientific discipline is not opinions – it ’s facts , " shewrote on Twitter , from the sauceboat she is presently sail on back home .
" I honestly do n’t understand why adults would choose to spend their clock time mocking and threatening teenagers and child for promote science , when they could do something good alternatively . I infer they must plainly feel so imperil by us . "
" But do n’t waste your time giving them any more attention . The world is wake up . Change is come in wether they like it or not . See you in the street this Friday ! "
Perfect .
