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Published 10:10 16 Oct 2022 BST
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The 19-year-old climate activist gained recognition when she was 15-years-old after spending her Fridays sat outside the Swedish parliament building calling for more serious action on climate change.
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Greta Thunberg makes a speech on the Pyramid Stage during day four of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 25, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)[/caption]
One of the reasons for her lack of drunkenness, she says, is because she doesn't want anyone to boast about being the first person to be able to get her drunk.
She told the Times that she had the same concern when it came to romantic relationships.
'If I come up to them, you're more vulnerable. So you have people looking up to you, but you're also much more vulnerable', she said.
This comes a week after Greta challenged the perception that she’s an ‘angry teenager’ and says those closest to her know differently.Speaking about her activism and the impact suffering from Asperger’s syndrome has had on her work, Thunberg said: “It’s [Asperger’s] helped me see through a lot of the b******* because they say, ‘Oh yeah, we’re not in line with the Paris Agreement so far, but at least we’re taking small steps in the right direction’.
“Some people might see that as though we’re trying, but I see it as we’re so far away from what we need to be doing for even the bare minimum.”
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Greta Thunberg makes a speech on the Pyramid Stage during day four of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 25, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage)[/caption]
She also told Elle UK: "People seem to think of me as an angry teenager – they obviously haven't met me. At least two or three times a day I get laughing attacks where I can't breathe. It can be anything."
Greta took to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival earlier this year to deliver a speech on climate change, and she shared her opinions on the concept of hope, and suggested society work to redefine what it means to be hopeful in the face of the climate crisis, saying “hope means taking action”.
“First thing is, hope for whom? Is it for us?” she said.
“People living in financially fortunate parts of the world who are very much to blame for the climate emergency – maybe not us individuals but us in this part of the world – or hope for those who are actually being affected by the climate crisis?
“I don’t think hope is something that can be given to you, you have to create it yourself. Hope means taking action. I think that we need to redefine hope because it’s being used against us.
“If there is hope you don’t need to do anything, but that is the opposite of hope.”
Greta is set to launch her new book later this month. Titled "The Climate Book", it is a collection of more than 100 contributions from figures such as economist Kate Raworth, writer and activist Naomi Klein and author Margaret Atwood
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