Greta Thunberg: adults who attack her ‘must feel threatened’

[GrandizerII]

My biggest criticism of the whole situation is it seems that she's being used by the adults around her. I have a hard time believing that all of this was genuinely her idea.

What's the basis for this thinking?

The story of her life thus far as depicted in Wikipedia (and verified by the cited sources there) suggests otherwise:

Greta Thunberg was born on 3 January 2003 in Stockholm,[10][11] the daughter of opera singer Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg.[12] Her paternal grandfather is actor and director Olof Thunberg.[13]

Thunberg says she first heard about climate change in 2011, when she was 8 years old, and could not understand why so little was being done about it.[14] Three years later she became depressed and lethargic, stopped talking and eating, and was eventually diagnosed with Asperger syndrome,[15] obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD),[15] and selective mutism.[15][16] While acknowledging that her diagnosis "has limited me before", she does not view her Asperger's as an illness and has instead called it her "superpower".[16]

For about two years, Thunberg challenged her parents to lower the family's carbon footprint by becoming vegan and giving up flying, which in part meant her mother had to give up her international career as an opera singer.[12][17] Thunberg credits her parents' eventual response and lifestyle changes with giving her hope and belief that she could make a difference.[12] The family story is recounted in the 2018 book Scenes from the Heart.[18]

In late 2018, Thunberg began the school climate strikes and public speeches for which she has become an internationally recognized climate activist. Her father does not like her missing school, but said: "[We] respect that she wants to make a stand. She can either sit at home and be really unhappy, or protest, and be happy".[17] Thunberg says her teachers are divided in their views about her missing class to make her point. She says: "As people they think what I am doing is good, but as teachers they say I should stop."[17]

Thunberg published a collection of her climate action speeches, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, in May 2019[19] with the earnings being donated to charity.[20] In one of her first speeches demanding climate action, Thunberg described the selective mutism aspect of her condition as meaning she "only speaks when necessary".[14] In 2019, Thunberg also contributed a voiceover for a release of "The 1975", the theme song of an English band by the same name. Thunberg finishes by urging: "So, everyone out there, it is now time for civil disobedience. It is time to rebel." Proceeds will go to Extinction Rebellion at Thunberg's request.[21]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg