Climate change activist Greta Thunberg in the running for Nobel Peace Prize

CLIMATE change activist Greta Thunberg is in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The 17-year old Swedish green campaigner and the Fridays for Future movement could scoop the international accolade for shining a light on the connection between damage to the environment and the threat to peace and security.

Three Norwegian lawmakers and two Swedish politicians have put forward the teenager’s name. This is the second year in a row Thunberg has been nominated for the $1 million prize.

This time she is one of 318 candidates, but according to historian and author of a number of books about the award, Asle Sveen, current events make her a strong contender.

In comments to the Reuters news agency he pointed to the current wildfires devastating parts of the US and to rising temperatures in the Arctic, saying issues likes this are “leaving people in no doubt” about global warming.

“Not a single person has done more to get the world to focus on climate change than her”, Sveen affirmed.

If the 17-year Swede does win she would become the second ever youngest recipient.

The Pakistani activist for female education Malala Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate: she was just 17 years and two months when she won it jointly six years ago.

This year’s winner will be announced in Oslo on October 9.

Irish betting agency Paddy Power ranks the World Health Organisation as the favourite, with odd of 5/2. Thunberg is second favourite at 3/1, followed by New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at 5/1.

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Comments


    • Naimah Yianni

      18 September 2020 • 14:38

      Greta Thunberg is a puppet used by her management company to spread unscientific untruths about climate change in order to spread the globalist agenda. She is responsible for helping to brainwash young people all over the world with her non science. All paid for by George Soros, who wants a one world government and who is using climate change lies to bring it about. Wake up please. This child, who by her own mother´s admission is autistic and has an eating disorder, is in no way qualified to tell the world how to live and she should not be promoted by the media

    • Renato Besomi

      18 September 2020 • 19:29

      Nobel peace price for her, what a joke!!!!!!

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