{"id":8499,"date":"2019-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/greta-thunberg-times-person-year\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:00:00","slug":"greta-thunberg-times-person-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/greta-thunberg-times-person-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg Is TIME\u2019s Person Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named TIME magazine\u2019s 2019 person of the year.<\/h3>\n<p>According to TIME\u2019s editor in chief Edward Felsenthal, Thunberg was chosen &#8220;for sounding the alarm about humanity&#8217;s predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation lead&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That Thunberg is the youngest individual ever named TIME&#8217;s Person of the Year says as much about the moment as it does about her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 92-year-old franchise is rooted in the so-called Great Man theory of history, the notion that powerful individuals shape the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Historically that has meant people who worked their way up the ladders of major organisations and were at home in the corridors of power.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in this moment when so many traditional institutions seem to be failing us, amid staggering inequality and social upheaval and political paralysis, we are seeing new kinds of influence take hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is wielded by people like Thunberg, leaders with a cause and a phone who don&#8217;t fit the old rubrics but who connect with us in ways that institutions can&#8217;t and perhaps never could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GretaThunberg<\/a> is TIME&#39;s 2019 Person of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TIMEPOY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YZ7U6Up76v\">https:\/\/t.co\/YZ7U6Up76v<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SWALBfeGl6\">pic.twitter.com\/SWALBfeGl6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; TIME (@TIME) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME\/status\/1204743717132914688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg has been named TIME magazine\u2019s 2019 person of the year. 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