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Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who focuses on the problem of climate change. In 2018 she founded a movement known as Fridays for Future (also called School Strike for Climate), which garnered international attention. Thunberg was credited with shifting some people’s views and behaviors regarding climate change, and her influence is known as “the Greta effect.”

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