Greta Thunberg

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What's the problem with an early spring?

The problem with climate change explained by Bill McKibben

The transition to renewable energy explained by Phil the Fixer

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A Timeline of Environmental History

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Teenagers Who Changed the World in 2020

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A Recent History of Climate Change

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The Perils of an Early Spring

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Timeline of Climate Change

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What is Holy Week?

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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Where Is “Old Zealand”?

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Also Known As	Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
Born	January 3, 2003 (age 22) • Stockholm • Sweden
Founder	Fridays for Future
Subjects Of Study	“I Am Greta”

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Jill Stein

American politician and physician

Al Gore

vice president of United States

Julia Butterfly Hill

American activist

Anil Kumar Agarwal

Indian journalist and scholar

Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

American clergyman

Eduard Brückner

Austrian geographer and climatologist

Mildred Loving

American civil rights activist

David Dellinger

American peace activist

Jack Patten

Australian Aboriginal leader

Suzan Shown Harjo

Native American activist

Theodore Bikel

Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian leader

Martin Luther King, Jr.

American religious leader and civil-rights activist

Moon Jae-In

president of South Korea

Mateusz Morawiecki

prime minister of Poland

Viola Desmond

Canadian businesswoman and civil libertarian

Aleksey Navalny

Russian lawyer

Ron Kovic

American activist and author

Ai Weiwei

Chinese activist and artist

Larry Kramer

American writer

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