“No matter your political leaning, whether you love her or hate her, whether you’re for Trump or against him,” Ms. Pelosi “has had a much bigger impact,” Jake Sherman, a senior writer at Politico, said on Twitter.
The Hong Kong protesters won Time’s 2019 person of the year in a reader poll, the publication announced on Wednesday, adding that more than 27 million votes were cast.
Ms. Thunberg’s actions have also spoken loudly. She started Fridays for Future, in which thousands of children partake in local or global strikes.
In September, she arrived in New York after a 15-day sail across the Atlantic on an emissions-free yacht ahead of her speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. She set sail again in November for Spain for the 25th United Nations Climate Change conference.
“I decided to sail to highlight the fact that you can’t live sustainably in today’s society,” Ms. Thunberg told The Times by phone before leaving the country. “You have to go to the extreme.”
[On tour in America, Greta Thunberg offered an unvarnished view.]
The annual Time designation dates back to the 1920s, and some selections have proven controversial in past years.
Edward Felsenthal, the magazine’s editor in chief, said Ms. Thunberg was the youngest individual ever named Time’s person of the year in the franchise’s 92-year history. He praised her for “sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders” and for “showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads.”
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