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Greta Thunberg detained at The Hague climate demonstration (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 55 points 5 months ago

No offense. Just a genuine question. Where do activists like Greta get income or the money to travel or just for day to day living? Especially considering she has been doing this since a young age.

Pls don't take my comment as in a bad light. I'm the same age as her so I always wondered. The answer could be NGO's collecting donations but I'm not sure.

[-] Conyak@lemmy.tf 50 points 5 months ago

Her father is an actor and her mother an opera singer who has won Eurovision. They are wealthy.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

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It mentions her donating earnings from books she sells as well as award prizes to NGO's, and it mentions her travelling on her parents' dime.

Those award prizes can go into the 6 and 7 figures, apparently.

[-] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I bought her book so sure that helped. Give me a link and I will donate to. She doing good work. Wish she could be charge of her government. She the type of world leaders we need.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 29 points 5 months ago

Organizations like Fridays for Future are funded by donations and part of the money goes towards protests and publicity. I assume they allocate some money to have these prominent people present.

[-] eardon@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

It's a very good question to ask and anyone who gets mad at you over it isn't worth taking seriously.

I assume she just has rich parents that pay for everything.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

There's a few large orgs like Extinction Rebellion that are really organised. Greta probably takes the train which isn't that expensive in Europe and then couch surfs because that's what being a hippie is all about

[-] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Her parents are incredibly wealthy.

It's a complaint many have with her. She comes from the same class of people that are responsible for most of the problems of the world. It's genuinely off-putting but there's really not that many choices out there for people with this amount of influence and money who are willing to take up this fight.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

She might get paid for interviews etc.

Or she might just have a patreon or something.

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