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Meet the young Swedish activist who is standing up to climate change!Before she was a well-known environmentalist activist, Greta was just a girl living in Stolkholm, Sweden. She first heard about climate change when she was only eight years old, and she couldn't understand why no one seemed to be doing anything about it. When she was 15 years old, she began spending her days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for action on climate change. She'd sit outside the whole school day with a sign that read "School strike for climate." Soon, other students began to follow Greta's lead and participate in similar protests, and together, these kids organized the Fridays for Future climate strike movement. Greta also is an inspiration to many because she has Asperger's Syndrome and is very open in talking about her diagnosis, further destigmatizing it. Today, Greta continues to fight for climate change-and continues to prove that you're never too young to make a difference! First Names is a highly illustrated nonfiction series that puts readers on a first-name basis with some of the most incredible people in history and of today!

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Publié par	ABRAMS BOOKS
Date de parution	12 avril 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781683355731
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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For Toby and his huggable hairy friends, Wellington and Polo. -TT
For anyone who has fought for their beliefs. -TK

The facts in First Names: Greta Thunberg have been carefully checked and are accurate to the best of our knowledge, but if you spot something you think may be incorrect please let us know. This text is intended to be entertaining, that s why we ve included Greta as a cartoon character. However, the words and thoughts spoken by this character are not the actual words and thoughts of the real Greta Thunberg and the Explained sections aren t explained in Greta Thunberg s own words. Some of the passages in this book are actual quotes from Greta and other important people. You ll be able to tell which ones they are by the style of type: I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
Library of Congress Control Number 2021945014
ISBN 978-1-4197-3740-4 eISBN 978-1-68335-573-1
Text copyright 2021 Tracey Turner
Illustrations copyright 2021 Tom Knight
Book design by Charice Silverman
2021 as UK edition. First published in 2021
by David Fickling Books Limited
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C ONTENTS
I NTRODUCTION
1 - G RETA S G REAT S TART
2 - G RETA B ECOMES AN E XPERT
3 - G RETA G RADUALLY G ETS B ETTER
4 - G RETA D ISCOVERS H ER S UPERPOWERS
5 - G RETA G OES ON S TRIKE
6 - G RETA S R EBELLION
7 - G RETA G OES G LOBAL
8 - G RETA S N ORTH A MERICAN A DVENTURE
9 - G RETA S F UTURE P LANS
T IMELINE
G LOSSARY
N OTES
B IBLIOGRAPHY
I NDEX OF S EARCHABLE T ERMS

I NTRODUCTION -S TOCKHOLM , S WEDEN , 2011
Greta sat at her school desk with tears in her eyes.
Each scene on the screen in front of the class was more terrible than the last. In one, a scrawny, miserable-looking polar bear was marooned on a piece of Arctic ice. In another, a giant island made from bits of plastic trash rose and fell with the waves on a blue sea.
The video explained that the island was about the size of Mexico. A floating trash pile the size of a country?

The children couldn t believe their eyes, but when the film finished, their teacher told them that it was all completely true . This is why everyone should save energy and recycle things, she said.
Is there anything else we can do? asked a girl at the front of the class.
Not really, said the teacher sadly. We should all hope someone invents something to make the problem go away. And she told the children how some of the most powerful companies in the world-oil companies, for example-weren t at all interested in being environmentally friendly because they made most of their money from the fossil fuels that were causing the Arctic ice to melt in the first place.
Also, she went on, although scientists have proven that climate change is real, not everyone believes it s true.
Greta was stunned-how could people just not believe in science? How could everyone just carry on going to work and school, doing their homework, taking vacations . . . when all the time, terrible things were happening to the planet because of climate change, pollution, and plastic waste?
All the children in the classroom were just as shocked and upset as Greta . . .
. . . for about five minutes. Then it was time for recess, and they started heading for the classroom door, chatting, arguing, rushing off to play in the playground.

Oh, by the way, the teacher added, I won t be here next week. I m off to New York for a wedding!
Some of the kids stopped and crowded around their teacher excitedly. They exchanged stories of vacations they d had in faraway locations around the world.
Greta couldn t believe it. Had everyone just forgotten the video they d just watched? How could they talk about flying around the world when they must know that aircraft pollution was making the planet s problems even worse?
Greta didn t rush off happily, chatting, and playing with the rest of her classmates. She was on her own, as usual. She almost always liked to be quiet anyway, but now she was also upset. The video had shown that Planet Earth was in BIG trouble, and she couldn t stop thinking about how awful the situation was. Why wasn t anyone doing anything about it?
Tears began to roll down her face. She didn t say anything out loud, but she made a resolution: she was NOT going to forget about this. She was NOT just going to hope someone else would sort out the problem, or that climate change would somehow go away by itself.

Since the day eight-year-old Greta watched the video about climate change at school, a lot has changed. She s stuck to her word, and she really has done something about it. Now she s known around the world and is one of the most influential people on the planet. Greta:
Started a global movement for climate change involving millions of people-she s spoken to audiences of thousands!
Became the youngest person EVER to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize-twice!
Met the Pope, spoke with Leonardo DiCaprio, and went for a bike ride with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Led the biggest climate strike in history.

But before we find out what the climate crisis is and how Greta did all these amazing things and affected millions of people, let s travel back to 2003, when Greta was born . . .
1 G RETA S G REAT S TART
Long before she started having an effect on the climate change movement, Greta had a big effect on her parents. Life was already pretty good for Mom, Malena Ernman, and Dad, Svante Thunberg, when Greta was born on January 3, 2003. Both parents had successful careers, plenty of money, a comfortable home, and now a new baby-though they also knew they d have to make some changes to their lifestyle, because babies tend to be quite demanding.
Greta s mom, Malena, was famous in Sweden, where the family lived, thanks to her extraordinary voice. She d loved singing folk music when she was a child, had switched to jazz after she left college, but really made her name singing opera. As an opera star she performed with some of the world s most talented conductors and orchestras. She d released a couple of albums, appeared on TV, and played the part of a prince in a film of the short opera, Die Fledermaus .
Greta s dad, Svante, came from a family of actors and had followed his parents onto the stage. He d performed in some of Sweden s top theaters and done some TV and film work too. But when he was offered his dream job, a TV comedy series, he turned it down ! Malena was pregnant, and they both knew that her career was far more successful than Svante s, and that she could earn loads more money than he could. So Svante decided he was the one who would take time off to look after their new baby.
With Dad as her main caretaker, life started out pretty well for baby Greta. She lived with her parents in the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden s capital, which is built on fourteen islands where Lake M laren meets the Baltic Sea. The family had an apartment in the city and a summer house on the nearby island of Ingar . When Malena had to travel for her work, Svante and Greta went along for the ride , settling in different cities around Europe-Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam-for two months at a time.

Things got even better in 2005, when Malena had another daughter, Beata, and Greta gained a little sister. While the girls were small, the family of four carried on travelling happily together, staying in smart apartments, visiting parks and zoos, and playing together at home whenever Malena s rehearsal schedules allowed.

S ONG C ONTESTS
In 2009, when Greta was six, her mom entered Melodifestivalen , Sweden s most popular TV show, a singing competition that s a bit like American Idol . Though Malena was already a big name in opera before she entered, the competition quickly made her even more famous . She won first place and the honor of representing her country in that year s Eurovision Song Contest.
Eurovision was held in Moscow, and Malena interrupted her busy opera schedule to take part. She performed the Swedish entry in French and English (she d helped write the bilingual lyrics herself), to an audience of 122 million people around the world, looking stunningly beautiful in a long white dress.

Malena s song didn t win Eurovision. In fact, it came a disappointing 21st place out of 25. Malena did wonder if this might have something to do with her tweets in support of an LGBTQ+ protest march that was happening in Moscow at the same time as the song contest. A Pride march had been banned by the Russian government, and Malena was outraged. The only other contestant who supported the protest on social media was the Spanish contestant, and she came 24th! But if Malena cared about her disappointing ranking, she didn t show it, and she must have felt a bit better when her song reached number one in the Swedish Svensktoppen radio chart.
Even now that she is really famous, Malena isn t the sort of celebrity who goes to premieres and fancy parties. Once a show is over, she usually hurries home, not just because she loves her family, but also because she s quite a shy person-singing on stage is fine, but socializing isn t much fun for Malena.
H IGH F LYERS
Before Greta became a world