A new wax figure has been unveiled of climate change activist Greta Thunberg!
The new figure displays the 17-year-old bundled up while holding her infamous sign, reading, “Skolstrejk for Klimatet”.
The phrase translates from Swedish to say “school strike for the climate”.
Gottfried Krüger sculpted the wax display and it can be seen at the Panoptikum in Hamburg, Germany.
Greta also recently took to her official Instagram account to warn people of impostors and others pretending to be her.
“Impostors, trademarks, commercial interests, royalties and foundation… First: Unfortunately there are still people who are trying to impersonate me or falsely claim that they “represent” me in order to communicate with high profile people, politicians, media, artists etc. Please be aware that this is happening and be extremely suspicious if you are contacted by ”me” or someone saying they ”represent” me,” she wrote in a lengthy post. “I apologize to anyone who has been contacted – and even misled – by this kind of behavior.”
Greta Thunberg is one of the biggest names in the climate activism world and she also has a great sense of humor.
When a clip from a British game show went viral on her 17th birthday on Friday (January 3), she changed her Twitter bio to reflect the hilarious error a contestant made.
“The 2019 book entitled No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference is a collection of speeches made by a Swedish climate change activist. What’s her name?” a contestant was asked.
The contestant replied, “Sharon.” The answer was obviously Greta, who was very amused by the clip.
Greta has changed the name in her Twitter bio to “Sharon.”
Greta Thunberg is opening up about the moment she gave President Donald Trump a “death stare” during the U.N. climate summit in New York earlier this year.
In her interview on BBC Radio’s Today program, the 16-year-old climate activist opened up about the moment she saw Trump walk into the summit and how she wasn’t going to waste her time speaking to him.
“Honestly, I don’t think I would have said anything because obviously he’s not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?” Greta mused about if she was given the chance to speak to him on the program. “I probably wouldn’t have said anything, I wouldn’t have wasted my time.”
Greta also spoke about the attacks on her regarding her appearance, among other things.
“Those attacks are just funny because they obviously don’t mean anything,” she said. “I guess of course it means something — they are terrified of young people bringing change which they don’t want — but that is just proof that we are actually doing something and that they see us as some kind of threat.”
The 16-year-old climate change activist opened up about depression, her stance on life and more. Check it out:
On being depressed: “Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.”
On her stance: “We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow. That is all we are saying.”
Greta’s dad, on helping their daughter: “We did all these things, basically, not really to save the climate, we didn’t care much about that initially. We did it to make her happy and to get her back to life.”
Greta Thunberg has been honored with the 2019 Nordic Council’s Environment Prize, but is choosing to not accept it.
The 16-year-old climate change activist took to Instagram to share her reasoning for declining the award, which goes to a company, organisation or individual for exemplary efforts to integrate respect for nature and the environment into their business or work or for some other form of extraordinary initiative on behalf of nature and the environment.
“I have received the Nordic Council’s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize. Here’s why: ‘I am currently traveling through California and therefore not able to be present with you today. I want to thank the Nordic Council for this award. It is a huge honour. But the climate movement does not need any more awards. What we need is for our politicians and the people in power start to listen to the current, best available science,” Greta wrote.
“We belong to the countries that have the possibility to do the most. And yet our countries still basically do nothing. So until you start to act in accordance with what the science says is needed to limit the global temperature rise below 1,5 degrees or even 2 degrees celsius, I – and Fridays For Future in Sweden – choose not to accept the Nordic Councils environmental award nor the prize money of 500 000 Swedish kronor,” she concluded.
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The 16-year-old climate change activist is among the 2019 Woman of the Year honorees, along with Yara Shahidi, Charlize Theron, and more.
In Greta‘s feature, she opened up about refusing to travel to New York City by plane, and traveled by emission-free sailboat.
“It was incredible to be there,” she said about being on the sea. “To see the view, the boats, and the ocean; not to have contact with people, but to just be disconnected.”
“These experiences in nature—that gives you more patience, because that’s what we’re trying to work for and that’s what we’re trying to save,” Greta added.
