Prominent Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has been cleared of a public order offence over a protest outside an oil and gas conference in 2023, after a judge in a London court ruled on Friday that she had no case to answer, according to Devdiscourse.
Outside court after the proceedings on Thursday, the 21-year-old campaigner highlighted the need to “remember who the real enemy is, what are we defending, who are our laws meant to protect.” She took to X, previously called Twitter, to elaborate on the circumstances.
Greta Thunberg regularly nominated for Nobel Prize
Greta became famous across the globe for her speeches in her teenage years and is currently one of the best-known climate campaigners on the planet, having been nominated for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize every year since 2019.
But what does her life look like away from climate activism? The Mirror provided a brief answer in a report released on Friday. The agency reported that the activist born in Stockholm in 2003 first learned about the climate crisis at the age of eight.
Three years later, Thunberg started suffering from depression and according to her actor father Svante, “she stopped talking … she stopped going to school.” She describes herself on X as an “autistic climate justice activist Born at 375 ppm.”
Never gone out drinking, not very sustainable income
Thunberg calls her autism diagnosis a ‘superpower’, noting it helps to motivate her climate protests. She held the first ‘School Strike for Climate’ at the age of 15 outside the Swedish parliament and numerous youngsters globally joined her Fridays for Future strikes.
She took a year out of school in 2019 to focus on activism and in 2022, she brought out The Climate Book. The campaigner admitted that she did not earn any money from the book as she gives away all the profits to charity.
The Mirror reported that Thunberg told The Times her only form of income at the time was the student grant, but called it “not very sustainable”. Furthermore, she said she has never had an alcoholic drink before and would “never go out drinking” or do anything “stupid”.
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