Climate Changed
Time Picks Greta Thunberg as Youngest-Ever Person of the Year
- Teen climate activist supplants first-ever choice, Lindbergh
- Thunberg tells UN conference rich nations aren’t doing enough
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Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old activist behind a global wave of student strikes, was named Time magazine’s youngest-ever Person of the Year.
“Her message is one the Boomers would have recognized in the 1960s: Our elders have sold us out,” the magazine said in an article announcing the choice. The previous youngest Person of the Year was the first, aviator Charles Lindbergh, then 25, in 1927.