Greta Thunberg (klimataktivist)

Children’s top 10 modern-day bravery icons

Children are inspired by Greta Thunberg, Matilda and Malala Yousafzai to be brave in their every day life, a new poll has revealed.

When asked who embodies modern-day bravery – real or fictional – environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, activist Malala Yousafzai and Roald Dahl character Matilda made the top three – alongside Andy Murray, Stormzy and Harry Potter.

1. Greta Thunberg - 16-year-old environmental campaigner and activist

2. Matilda - A young girl who stands up to her bullying headteacher, Miss Trunchbull

3. Malala Yousafzai - Human rights campaigner and youngest ever Nobel Prize winner

4. Ariana Grande – Singer who performed a benefit concert in Manchester less than a month after the tragic terror attack during her stadium gig

5. Harry Potter - An orphaned wizard who stands up for what he believes in and always speaks the truth

6. Andy Murray - Tennis player who returned to play this year after a career-threatening injury

7. Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games) - Volunteers herself in place of her younger sister as tribute for the Hunger Games

8. Barack Obama - The first black President of the United States, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his humanitarian efforts and supporter of numerous charities

9. Dustin (Stranger Things) - Dustin stands strong when bullied at school and when the supernatural turns his life upside down, he protects his friends

10. Stormzy - Rapper who uses his music to speak out about topics including racial discrimination and the Grenfell fire tragedy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/greta-thunberg-tops-list-of-10-bravest-icons-according-to-kids_uk_5d76207be4b0645135714bfd

Han själv blev sjösjuk, men säger att Greta inte alls verkade påverkas av de tuffa förhållandena.

– Det var den stora frågan på resan: Skulle Greta att klara av förhållandena? Men hon klarade det galant.

Till slut ropade Greta "fortare, fortare", enligt Boris Herrmann.

Ombord på båten hann de lära känna varandra ganska väl.

– När vi var ensamma pratar hon exakt som när hon håller tal. Hon har så klara tankar och är inte intresserad av kallprat. Hon har ett extremt fokus. Hon verkar så allvarlig i medierna, men vi hade mycket roligt.

How Greta Thunberg Captured Our Attention on Climate
We’re finally ready to absorb her bleak message, and maybe act on it.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/09/greta-thunberg-climate-activism-scares-the-right-and-the-left.html

"Why has Thunberg been able to break through and become a catalyzing figure, when other young people have been pursuing climate activism? Why was it Greta who had her face made into a 50-foot mural on the side of a building in Britain? Why, for example, didn’t the plaintiffs in Juliana v. the United States, a 2015 lawsuit filed against the American government for its failure to ward off a future of climate chaos, become media darlings?"

"Thunberg wants big change. She’s not willing to be placated. And she’s found that her methodology works. “I made them feel guilty,” she said of her successful campaign to get her parents to quit flying and eating meat. (“It’s like you’ve killed 80 people!” she said to her mother once, when she came back from a gig in Japan.) “You say you love your children above all else, and yet you’re stealing their future before their very eyes,” she said at the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference, in December of 2018."