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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, behind the "Fridays for Future" movement, was named "Personality of the Year" by Time magazine on Wednesday.
Each year in December, the American weekly distinguishes a person who has particularly marked the past year. Since 1927, for example, Josef Stalin, Angela Merkel and Donald Trump have appeared on the front page of the magazine. But never, Time had awarded this title to someone so young. At just 16, Greta Thunberg is now the icon of a generation.
When the Swedish teenage girl starts in August 2018 to dry every Friday her schoolyard to protest in front of the Parliament in Stockholm against the inaction of policies in the face of climate change, she is far from imagining that all over the world millions of young people will follow his example. Far from imagining that it will put the powerful of this world in the face of their responsibility from the UN platform in New York.
An inspiration for an entire generation
But his tenacity is not only admiration for him. Greta Thunberg becomes the target of climate skeptics, such as Donald Trump or Jair Bolsonaro. On social networks and in the media, she suffers violent attacks.
But if today everywhere in the world there are increasing environmental concerns, if governments start to pass laws to fight against climate change, it is undoubtedly also because of the millions of young people who regularly invade the streets.
The front page of Time magazine shows a straight Greta Thunberg with her head held high in front of the sea. As if to show that a year of hostilities and challenges only made her grow.
. @ GretaThunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6
TIME (@TIME) December 11, 2019