Svante Thunberg, father of Greta Thunberg, considered that it was “a bad idea” that his daughter be placed “in the first line” of the fight against climate change. In an interview on the BBC, he adds that he did not want the now-activist to lose hours of class to go to strike a global climate. However, he recognizes that his daughter, 16 years, is “much happier” since that is spearheading this cause and millions of people have been inspired by it, though he is concerned about “the hate” that wakes up in the other.
The father of Greta admits in the interview that the family made changes in your way of life to “save” his daughter, because he did not want to eat or go to school, and not by the climate crisis. The teen Swedish has become the symbol of the global fight against climate change, and has brought his campaign for several countries in the world, to which he travels but never in an airplane, by its pollutant emissions. Svante Thunberg acknowledges that her daughter had depression problems for “three or four years” before the start of their strike in school.
“he Stopped talking, he stopped going to school,” he admitted Svante Thunberg to Radio 4, the BBC, and added that the situation of his daughter became the worst nightmare for a parent,” when not wanted to eat. To help her, he added, he started to spend more time with Greta, and with her younger sister, Beata, in her home of Sweden, while his mother, the opera singer Malena Ernman, cancelled contracts that had to be with the family.
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it Was then when Greta, diagnosed four years ago with Asperger’s, an autism spectrum disorder, began to manifest itself increasingly passionate about the need to tackle the climate crisis, explained the father, who admitted that the family began to change, and to take more seriously the environmental problem, as the decision of the mother of
not flying on an airplane.
“I did all these things, I knew they were things that had to be done, but I didn’t do it to save the climate, what I did to save my daughter. I have two daughters and, to be honest, they are all that matters to me. I just want you to be happy,” he admitted. “People think that she is special, and it is very famous and all those things. But for me it is a normal girl,” which, according to him, he is happy now and does what any other teenager, “dance, laughs a lot, has fun”.
Svante Thunberg was concerned about “the false news, for all the things that people try to invent about it, the hate that it generates”. But he added that his daughter brings to bear the critical “incredibly well”. “Frankly, I don’t know how he does it, but laughs most of the time. What is hilarious,” he said.
The father of the young activist, hoped that the situation would become “less intense” for his family in the future, and thinks that Greta “really want to go back to class.” He also explained that when she is 17 years old, you don’t need to accompany you on your travels. “If you need me, I’ll try to do,” he said. “But I think that she will go, more and more, doing it alone, which is great.”
