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Activist Greta Thunberg’s rise to fame on climate change followed with Donald Trump’s backlash

With recent years involving vast discussions on sea level rise, pollution, an ice-free Arctic, and more, one who has certainly erupted millions of conversations amongst bringing an end to climate change is Greta Thunberg. According to an analysis of Google search data, a significant increase search on Greta Thunberg throughout her rise to global fame generated an increase search on climate change and Donald Trump.

On September 2019, interest in Greta Thunberg had led to a rise in interest on climate change and Donald Trump when he tweeted about her on the same month. Searches on Greta and climate change later decreased to a substantial rate while Donald Trump remained about the same. Soon, a small interest in Greta appeared around December 2019 while searches in climate change remained the same and Donald Trump searches significantly increased around the same time period.

Since her testimony to the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on August 2019, Greta began making headlines when Donald Trump tweeted a response to Greta on September, saying: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!”. Her recognition and contributions, led her to be nominated for various awards, such as the Nobel Peace Prize.

Greta marked her start when she hosted a 3 week school strike in front of the Swedish parliament, leading to the creation of Fridays for Future movement. At that point, her movement grew to involve over 100,000 young people globally, and she began speaking at rallies all around the world in country capitals, like Helsinki, Brussels, and London.

Despite Greta’s positive influence throughout the world, the activist faced backlash when Donald Trump tweeted about her on December of 2019, saying: “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”. That same month, however, Greta made the Forbes list of the world’s 100 Most Powerful Women and won Glamour magazine’s Woman of the Year.

On February 2020, Greta went to Bristol to join thousands of people on a Youth Strike 4 Climate demonstration.

Bushfires in Australia are impacted by a wave of donations

The current catastrophe involving the bushfires in Australia has created an overwhelming flood of awareness and emotions of both grief and hope. According to the University of Sydney, an estimate of about 480 million animals have been killed in NSW (New South Wales) since September, marking Australia as having the highest rate of species lost of any area in the world.

Since the start of the bushfires, celebrities from Elton John to tennis Player Novak Djokovic have donated and raised money to help with the tragedy that is happening.

With awareness of the bushfires spreading all over social media, such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, a fundraiser for fire services in NSW raised more than $20 million within 48 hrs of the crisis, according to BBC News. Charities accepting donations, like the Australian Red Cross , Australian Salvation Arm y, World Wildlife Fund Australia have also made its efforts to support the ending of the bushfires and those who have lost their homes to it.

This has become a wake-up call for many, after researchers concluded that the Australian bushfires were far more catastrophic than climate models predicted.

Australia is now facing another battle with flash floods expanding in eastern Australia, leaving thousands without power in parts of Queensland and NSW.