Greta Thunberg has challenged the perception that she’s an ‘angry teenager’ and says those closest to her know differently.
The 19-year-old climate change activist surprisingly rose to fame when she was a schoolgirl and became the face of school strikes.
Thunberg has said becoming a climate change activist has given her life ‘purpose’ and ‘something to do’ – but her approach has prompted some to believe she’s constantly angry.
Former US President Donald Trump once sarcastically tweeted that the teen ‘seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future’ after seeing part of an impassioned speech she gave at a climate change summit.
However, in a new interview with Elle, Thunberg has spoken about her ‘angry’ image and how it’s not at all accurate.
“People seem to think of me as an angry teenager,” she told the publication. “They obviously haven’t met me. At least two or three times a day I get laughing attacks where I can’t breathe. It can be anything. If I’m in a room with people, they suddenly realise I’m not breathing and ask me if I’m OK and it’s because I can’t stop!”
The teen reckons her Asperger’s Syndrome helps her quickly get to the truth of the matter and cut through the soundbites often given by politicians when it comes to climate change.
“Some people might see that as though we’re trying, but I see it as we’re so far away from what we need to be doing for even the bare minimum.”
She said: “Listen to the scientists, listen to the experts, listen to those who are most affected.
“I could talk about all these things, but I am a privileged white person who lives in Sweden. I don’t really have any story to tell, so it’s up to others who need to be heard to [talk about] these things.”
She said: “Listen to the scientists, listen to the experts, listen to those who are most affected.
“I could talk about all these things, but I am a privileged white person who lives in Sweden. I don’t really have any story to tell, so it’s up to others who need to be heard to [talk about] these things.”
LMAO…she’s not angry, she’s just low IQ. Like her fellow libtards!
I never thought of her as angry so much as whining. All she ever seems to do was whine about the fact that climate is not yet fixed, while offering no solutions to the problem. Back around the time of the first Earth Day, my friends and I all wrote to our congressional leaders (way before email or the internet, so paper and a stamp were necessary) asking that they look into getting rid of coal as a fuel. Certainly it was the cheapest fossil fuel at the time, but it was also the most polluting, so we figured it would be a good start. Unfortunately, profits won out over climate, and Congress did nothing about it, and continued to do nothing about it for the next half century.
Just another dupe from the idiotic libs. This lil girl has been used and abused and the left loves all the abuse she has rightfully received while those cowards that put her up to it hide away in their basements next to joebamma
Why is media giving so much attention to one self-admitted mentally ill teenager?
Doing things in more expensive ways is fine if the people pimping them wants to pay for them…
LIBERAL BS
How can anyone badmouth this beautiful brilliant young lady. Listen to her message and hope it’s not to late. Get your head out of your ass and your nose out of Trumps behind..
Didn’t Trump say,’‘seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future’ after seeing part of an impassioned speech she gave at a climate change summit. ”?
Everything Greta knows, just isn’t so. You can’t listen to scammers and any sense of reality!!
“Listen to the scientists, listen to the experts, listen to those who are most affected.” Is that the Flat Earth science?
Hmmmmm, not an angry teenager? Her speech and what else, oh yeah, facial expressions say otherwise. Oh by the way, Climate Change is one of the biggest hoaxes ever conceived on the world’s populations.
Dont think you can FIX stupid and thats her image in my mind And has even stupider parents that let her be that way