\nWhile the franchise has a long record of recognizing the power of young people, the editors have never before selected a teenager #TIMEPOY<\/a> t.co\/1YHRSq3a9i<\/a><\/p>\n
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Writes TIME<\/a>: \u201cWhile the franchise has\u00a0a long record<\/a>\u00a0of recognizing the power of young people, the editors have never before selected a teenager. Before 2019, the previous individual to hold the record for youngest Person of the Year was the first Person of the Year in TIME\u2019s history: 25-year-old\u00a0Charles Lindbergh<\/a>, selected as most influential man<\/a> of 1927. \u2026 Her message is one the Boomers would have recognized in the 1960s: Our elders have sold us out. The system isn\u2019t working. The time to act is now. Perhaps even more drastically than it did in 1966, the world is changing, and the young are the ones who see what\u2019s happening. And in 2019, as millions of people across the planet joined her, history was made by the vision of one young person in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n
ABC News reports<\/a>: \u201cIn a speech peppered with scientific facts about global warming, the Swedish 16-year-old told negotiators Wednesday at the U.N.\u2019s climate talks in Madrid that they have to stop looking for loopholes for their countries\u2019 actions and face up to the ambition that is needed to protect the world from a global warming disaster. \u2018The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done, apart from clever accounting and creative PR,\u2019 said Thunberg, who later Wednesday was named Time magazine\u2019s Person of the Year .\u201d<\/p>\n
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