“Thunberg developed her special interest in climate change when she was nine years old and in the third grade. ‘They were always talking about how we should turn off lights, save water, not throw out food,’ she told me. ‘I asked why and they explained about climate change. And I thought this was very strange. If humans could really change the climate, everyone would be talking about it and people wouldn’t be talking about anything else. But this wasn’t happening.'”
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