Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year, the magazine announced on Wednesday.
The 16-year-old, who has become the public face of climate change activism since leading school strikes in her home country of Sweden, topped President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to win the accolade.
“I’d like to tell my grandchildren that we did everything we could,” she told TIME magazine. “And we did it for them and for the generations to come.”
TIME’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal, unveiled this year’s winner on NBC’s Today Show, describing Thunberg as the “biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet.”
“She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year.” TIME Editor-in-Chief @efelsenthal talks about why TIME chose @GretaThunberg to be Person of the Year.
Thunberg, 16, is also the youngest person to ever receive the honor. pic.twitter.com/eTvLAiRtFW
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) December 11, 2019
“She also represents a broader generational shift in the culture that we’re seeing from the campuses of Hong Kong to the protests in Chile to Parkland, Florida, where the students marched against gun violence where young people are demanding change urgently,” said Felsenthal.
Thunberg garnered headlines earlier this year for sailing — rather than flying — from England to New York City to attended the United Nations climate summit.
During the conference, Thunberg raised eyebrows for a pointed speech in which she angerly accused world leaders of robbing her and other young people of their future due to their inaction on so-called global warming.
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here,” she said in her remarks. “I should be back in school, on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!”
Thunberg and a dozen other activists also lodged a complaint with the U.N. that accused France and four other countries of failing to adequately address the issue, a move that drew scorn from French President Emmanuel Macron.
Speaking at the time with Europe 1, Macron branded the complaint as “very radical” and warned it would likely “antagonize societies.”
“All the movements of our youth — or our not-so-young — are helpful,” explained the globalist leader. “But they must now focus on those who are furthest away, those who are seeking to block the way.”
Thunberg is the youngest person ever to be named the magazine’s “Person of the Year.”
TIME selected “The Guardians and the War on Truth” — a group of imprisoned and killed journalists — as its “Person of the Year” in 2018.
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And this pretty much explains why I haven’t touched a Time magazine since the 70’s.
In the 1970’s my parents didn’t renew their subscription to Time when the magazine started advocating gun control.
How does she expect to have grandchildren if we’re entering a mass extinction event?
I just know that liberal rag TIME was going to make her their Person of the Year back in 1938 they named Hitler their PERSON OF THE YEAR well i am not surprised at all this liberal rag has been printing front page LIES for years
Yes …. Time has a reputation of picking the top.
If is about the bull market then that is the top;
If it is about a bear market then that is the bottom.
All CEOs that have their pic on Time are at the end of their career.
I would say the grumpy Greta will now be at her peak of her climate crying agenda.
Don’t fret missing school, Greta, you’re head is full.
I would point out that Time’s selections for “Person of the Year” tend to be made on the basis of individuals who levied influence within their realm. This is the choice of Thunberg falls on its face. Even she declared this week that nobody was listening to her at COP25. Many times the POY highlight signifies that the person selected is at the apex of whatever it is they do and will fade away into obscurity. So rejoice and hope that the pattern continues during 2020.
Time has a record of selecting people who do a great deal of harm as their person of the year. In 1938 it was Adolph Hitler. In 1939 and 1942 it was Joseph Stalin, who is estimated to have killed 20 million in the Soviet Union. Remember the Nazi holocaust was 12 million. He planned to do a holocaust of the Jews in the Soviet Union but died before he could carry it out. In 1979 it was Ruhollah Khomeini who imposed totalitarian religious rule on Iran. Now we have Greta who is working hard to send the world back into poverty as a result of energy starvation.
Time Magazine has had many putrid front covers to their liberal rag for many years like HOW APES BECAME HUMAN or comparing a Chimp with Baby and their parody of the Iwo Jima with a Tree in place of the Flag over their GO GREEN issue and whats worst they print a issue for kids TIME FOR KIDS just t get them hooked into subsciring to the adult version when they grow up