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Wed Sep 25, 2019, 11:35 AM Sep 2019

Greta Thunberg wins alternative Nobel Prize

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/climate-activist-greta-thunberg-wins-alternative-nobel-prize/ar-AAHOcB2

Reuters

Climate activist Greta Thunberg wins 'alternative Nobel Prize'

By Johan Ahlander
9/25/19

STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg was named on Wednesday as one of four winners of the 2019 Right Livelihood Award, known as Sweden's alternative Nobel Prize.

Thunberg won the award "for inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts," the Right Livelihood Foundation said in a statement.

Thunberg, 16, denounced world leaders on Monday for failing to tackle climate change in a speech at the start of a climate summit at the United Nations in New York.

She started solitary weekly protests outside Swedish parliament a year ago. Inspired by her, millions of young people poured onto streets around the world last Friday to demand governments attending the summit take emergency action.
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Greta Thunberg wins alternative Nobel Prize (Original Post) saidsimplesimon Sep 2019 OP
I hope she also gets the real one. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2019 #1
That would really "frost" someone's rear flank. saidsimplesimon Sep 2019 #2
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