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Ms Thunberg has also been critical of lifestyle choices made by her mother Malena Ernman and her father Svante Thunberg

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Greta’s Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went On Strike To Save The Planet

Chintan Girish Modi
Greta’s Story: The Schoolgirl Who Went On Strike To Save The Planet
Author: Valentina Camerini (Translated by Moreno Giovannoni)
Publisher: OUP

Adults keep saying that they must give young people hope. I don’t want hope, I want you to panic, to take action. I want you to behave as if you were in the middle of a crisis, because that’s what it is.
 
These words sound like they come from students thronging the streets of India with marches protesting the draconian Citizenship Amendment Act but they were spoken by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist, at the World

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