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Greta Thunberg

Swedish climate activist

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Began a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish parliament at 15, which grew into a global youth movement, and keeps pressing governments to act on the science.

Greta Thunberg sits in the left-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and leaning libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly nature-first on environment, strongly state-led on economy and strongly progressive on culture.

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Where Greta Thunberg sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityLeaning libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly peace-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismSlightly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Greta Thunberg

Caroline Lucas British Green Party MP, 2010 to 202499%Naomi Klein Canadian author and activist99%José Mujica President of Uruguay, 2010 to 201598%Kate Raworth British economist98%Petra Kelly German Green co-founder, 1947 to 199297%Gustavo Petro President of Colombia, 2022 to 202695%Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez US Representative from New York, 2019 to present95%Gabriel García Márquez Colombian novelist, 1927 to 201494%

People furthest from Greta Thunberg

Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17152%Jair Bolsonaro President of Brazil, 2019 to 20223%Benito Mussolini Prime Minister of Italy, 1922 to 19433%Vladimir Putin President of Russia, 2000 to present (with a term as prime minister)3%

Political views closest to Greta Thunberg

Eco-socialismArgues that capitalism drives ecological crisis and calls for public, democratic control…99%EcofeminismLinks the domination of women and the domination of nature, and calls for care,…99%Green politicsPuts ecological limits, sustainability and grassroots democracy at the center of policy.99%Social ecologyTies the ecological crisis to social hierarchy and proposes directly democratic,…96%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Kushal Das, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.