📍Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 – 2018“Greta Thunberg grew up in Stockholm, the elder of two daughters of the opera singer Malena Ernman and the actor Svante Thunberg. Her early childhood was busy and creative, sometimes spent following her mother's performances around Europe. When she was about eight, her class was shown films about melting ice, starving polar bears and floods, and while the other children moved on, Greta could not stop thinking about what she had seen. At eleven she fell into a deep depression, stopped eating and speaking and stopped going to school. During that time she was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and she later said it helped her to see things in black and white and to refuse to look away. Her family rallied around her and, slowly, she recovered. Part of that recovery was action: she persuaded her parents to cut their own carbon footprint, and the family became vegan, stopped flying and changed how they lived at home. In August 2018, at fifteen, she cycled from home to the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, sat down outside with a hand-painted sign reading School Strike for Climate, and stayed. Within months, millions of young people around the world had joined the Fridays for Future strikes. She sailed across the Atlantic to speak at the United Nations rather than fly, and has continued campaigning for climate justice and human rights. Her mother and father wrote a book about how the family's life in Stockholm changed, and the spot outside the Riksdag where she first sat alone is now known around the world.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
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