Greta Thunberg and "The case to act now on climate change" a TED Talk

Who is Greta Thunberg? She is a 16 year-old climate activist from Sweden who in August 2018 decided to walk out of school and strike to raise awareness of climate change.

She speaks openly about her autism and the role it has played in her becoming politically active.  

"The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions," Thunberg says. "All we have to do is to wake up and change... So instead of looking for hope, look for action." 

This is her TED Talk from November 2018.

Since her TEDxStockholm she has kept busy. In December she addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference and in January 2019 she was invited to talk to the World Economic Forum at Davos.

In the World Economic Forum, she had strong words for a panel of people she spoke to, "Some people, some companies, some decision makers in particular have known exactly what priceless values they have been sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money. I think many of you here today belong to that group of people." 

Not bad for a teenager from Sweden.

You can follow her on Twitter and her hashtags #FridayForFuture and #SchoolStrike4Climate.