Climate Change is the greatest emergency our generation will face. Our planet is dying and we have very little time to change our course to prevent going past the point of no return and damaging our planet irreversibly (1).

Greta Thunberg has become one of the leading and loudest voices of the Climate Activist movement. Starting with a lone protest in August 2018, Thunberg created a movement (Fridays for Future) across the world and encouraged young people to step out of school and take up civil disobedience in the name of saving our planet. Since then, Thunberg has spread her message and spoken at climate rallies in Stockholm, Helsinki, Brussels, and London. She has taken up the cause before the United Nations, The European Union, and the World Economic Forum, and met the Pope. At all of these engagements she did not cowed to the pressure of the platform, she did not mince her words, she repeated the key message: we have no acted fast enough and we must do more.

At 16 years old, Thunberg has lit a spark and brought the Climate Crisis into the public psyche in a way many have simply been unable to achieve. What began as a young woman sat alone outside the Swedish parliament with a sign emblazoned “Skolstrejk for Klimatet” has become a global movement and inspired worldwide action.

This year, Greta was named in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people of 2019, received awards from nations across the world, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This petition requests that Time Magazine names Greta Thunberg as its Person of the Year, as a recognition of the massive impact she has had across the world.