Biography

Is in the autism spectrum. She was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome and with selective mutism.

In December 2019 British actress Amanda Henderson mistakenly answered "Sharon" to the question "The 2019 Book No One is Too Small to Make a Difference is a collection of speeches by a Swedish climate change activist. What is her name?" on an special celebrity episode of the BBC quiz show Mastermind (1972). Thunberg briefly changed her name on twitter to Sharon.

Made the cover of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" December 2019 issue.

When she came to the United States to address global warming, she came by boat to cut down on carbon emissions.

Huge fan of the documentaries of David Attenborough.

[to the U.N. Global Climate Action Summit, September 2019] You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words... People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of an endless economic growth. How dare you!

What's the point in educating ourselves and learning the facts when the people in power refuse to listen, to be educated and pay attention to the facts? Everywhere I've been the situation is more or less the same: the numbers of politicians and celebrities who want to take selfies are the same, and the lies are the same.

Our civilization is being sacrificed for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue making enormous amounts of money.

[Mocking world leaders in a speech at the Climate4Youth conference, dismissing promises on climate action made by Boris Johnson] Build back better; blah, blah, blah. Green economy; blah, blah, blah. Net zero by 2050; blah, blah, blah. Net zero; blah, blah, blah. Climate neutral, blah blah blah.

Until we have the technologies that at scale can put our emissions to minus then we must forget about net zero or 'carbon neutrality'.