Title: Five teens who changed the world - BBC Three
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Five teens who changed the world
These young people know how to get things done
Greta Thunberg
Malala Yousafzai
Emma González
Jack Andraka
Amika George

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Five teens who changed the world
These young people know how to get things done
Harvey Day 24 April 2019
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Too often, teens are lazily thought of as apathetic and self-centred. But a new generation of young activists has proved that many teenagers are, in fact, deeply concerned with social, political and environmental issues - and they’re fully prepared to do something about them. Chief among them is 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who has urged British politicians to "listen to the scientists" regarding climate change, while speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Here are five inspirational people who've had a massive impact on the world in their teen years. Greta Thunberg
Born in 2003, this Swedish teen activist has become a leading voice for climate change activism. Looks like this post is no longer available from its original source. It might've been taken down or had its privacy settings changed." In 2018, she came up with the idea for the school strike movement after staging her first, solitary, protest in August on the steps of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm. Since then, more than one million students have joined her by walking out of their classrooms to protest against climate change inaction.