Not many 17-year olds' decide not to celebrate their birthday. Unless you are well-known climate activist Greta Thunberg and probably the youngest person to be named Time Magazine's person of the year.
"I'm not the kind of person who celebrates birthdays," Greta Thunberg said as she turned 17 on Friday, marking the occasion with a seven-hour hour protest outside the Swedish parliament.
"I stand here striking from 8 am until 3 pm as usual ... then I'll go home," Thunberg said of her birthday plans.
The activist who started the weekly Friday School Strike for the climate change campaign at age 15, said, “I won't have a birthday cake but we will have dinner.” Thunberg began demonstrating outside the Swedish parliament to push her government to curb carbon emissions. Her action has inspired millions all over the globe to take action against climate change.
2019 has been a busy year for Thunberg who travelled across the globe by car, boat and train— not plane to demand action on climate change. "It has been a strange and busy year, but also a great one because I have found something I want to do with my life and what I am doing is having an impact," she said.
