Greta Thunberg
Born 3 January 2003
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. Thunberg is known for her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address the climate crisis.
Quotes
“We are doing this because, no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying. Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity.”
2025 “I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising... If I were like everyone else, I would have continued on and not seen this crisis.”
December 2019 “We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You've run out of excuses and we're running out of time.”
"You are stealing our future" December 2018 “I think it is insane that people are gathered here to talk about the climate and they arrive here in private jets.”
World Economic Forum January 2019 “Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.”
"You did not act in time" April 2019
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Greta Thunberg in order
Books by Greta Thunberg in the order they were published, from No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (2019) to Climate Book (2022).
