Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is Time's "Person of the Year". The sixteen year old has won the cover that since 1927 every December the American magazine attributes to the person who, for better or for worse, has marked the year that is about to end.
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Greta beat President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, the 'mole' who set in motion the impeachment procedure against the president and protesters in Hong Kong. Greta, who spoke today at the Cop 25 in Madrid, is the youngest person of the Year of Time.
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The cover of Time greets "the power of youth" in a photo that shows Greta standing on a rock hit by the waves. "For sounding the alarm on humanity's predatory relationship with the only home we have" and "for showing what happens when a new generation takes the lead", Greta Thunberg is the Person of the Year of Time for 2019 the magazine writes, according to which the girl "has managed to transform vague anxieties about the future of the planet into a global movement that calls for global change".
In other sub-categories, Time chose "state officials" who testified on Capitol Hill in Trump's impeachment hearings as "Guardians of the Year". Bog Iger of Disney is "the businessman of the year", while the women's soccer team with stars and stripes was chosen as "athlete of the year" and the 31-year-old singer and actress Lizzo is the " entertainer of the year ".