Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg named Time Person of the Year 2019

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2019.

16-year-old Thunberg, who has mobilized millions of people to fight climate change and condemned leaders’ inaction, is the international magazine’s youngest ever to be named Person of the Year.

The 16-year-old has “succeeded in turning vague anxieties about the planet into a worldwide movement calling for global change,” the magazine wrote in its announcement on Wednesday.

In an extended feature, it added:

“She is an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation.”

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