Thunbergian

comparative more Thunbergian · superlative most Thunbergian

1. Of or relating to Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish naturalist who collected and described many plants and animals new to European science.
2. Of or relating to Greta Thunberg (b. 2003), Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.

   So how is the past decade going to be remembered? As the Trumpy 2010s? And what will this new one be like? The Thunbergian 2020s, perhaps?

   2020 January 18, Niall Ferguson, “The people’s decade: how will history come to define the 2010s?”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023

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   When asked if she’ll meet with President Donald Trump, she gave a predictably Thunbergian response: “Why should I waste time talking to him when he, of course, is not going to listen to me?”

   2019 August 16, Michael Fraiman, “Greta Thunberg: A message in a racing yacht”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2019

   At present, with China allowed to self-identify as a “developing” nation it can continue merrily to grow its emissions, while tapping into the UN Climate fund to which Australia has contributed almost $200 million. That’s an outrage actually worthy of Thunbergian meltdown.

   2019 September 27, Miranda Devine, “Miranda Devine: Charges should be laid over the abuse of Greta Thunberg”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2023

   Not only is Scott a voice crying out in the wilderness, heralding the virtues of the Thunbergian project, but he is an outright evangelist for the faith: “We’re hoping to have other building owners who like this idea and support our objectives and want to have something similar on their buildings.” […] The Thunbergian clergy might claim that the public is functionally illiterate on issues of climate change, but the mural seems to suggest that they are more interested in selling indulgences than in informing the masses of the putative virtues of climate conversion. It might be that the great majority of people are “illiterate” on, for instance, the literature of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

   2019 November 14, John Hirschauer, “An Icon for Saint Greta Thunberg”, in National Review, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020

   Thunbergian activism, along with many other advocates, such as Autumn Peltier (who heartbreakingly asked the Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau for clean water), are figures we should align ourselves with in this fight for our planet.

   2020 January–February, “Moving Forward with Ecofeminism: Find Your Community”, in Amsterdam Alternative, number 28, page 15

   And if we were to heed the Thunbergian call for “immediate” action by halting the extraction of coal, oil, gas, and so forth, the consequences wold^([sic]) be so economically disastrous that all work on new, alternative technologies would cease.

   2020 February 27, “Editorial: Nuclear fears cost planet Earth dearly: ‘Green’ energy spurned”, in Press Enterprise, page 10

   Synonyms: Greta Thunbergian