Greta Thunberg takes part in a protest against Israel's participation in the Eurovision in May 2024, in Malmö, Sweden. (Credit: AFP)
Greta Thunberg is 16 years old as she prepares to board a sailboat for a long, highly publicized sea voyage. "For a moment, it feels as if Thunberg is the eye of a hurricane, a core of determination at the center of swirling chaos." It is 2019, and journalists from Time, the noted American magazine that named the Swedish teenager Person of the Year, recount the Atlantic Ocean crossing aboard Greta's La Vagabonde, headed for the U.N. climate conference in Madrid.'The icon of a generation'It has been more than a year since the Greta phenomenon spread to all corners of the globe. What began alone in 2018 on a Stockholm sidewalk in front of the Swedish Parliament, her climate strike turned into a global movement called Fridays for Future (FFF), gathering four million citizens in the streets worldwide on Sept. 20, 2019,...
Greta Thunberg is 16 years old as she prepares to board a sailboat for a long, highly publicized sea voyage. "For a moment, it feels as if Thunberg is the eye of a hurricane, a core of determination at the center of swirling chaos." It is 2019, and journalists from Time, the noted American magazine that named the Swedish teenager Person of the Year, recount the Atlantic Ocean crossing aboard Greta's La Vagabonde, headed for the U.N. climate conference in Madrid.'The icon of a generation'It has been more than a year since the Greta phenomenon spread to all corners of the globe. What began alone in 2018 on a Stockholm sidewalk in front of the Swedish Parliament, her climate strike turned into a global movement called Fridays for Future (FFF), gathering four million citizens in the streets worldwide on Sept. 20,...