Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg takes her message to Denver

Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg did not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize but that didn’t stop her from taking her call for greater action on climate change to Denver on Friday.

Greta is headlining a climate rally and strike at the Greek Amphitheater in Civic Center Park, according to event organizers, which include the International Indigenous Youth Council and Earth Guardians.

The young activist first grabbed the world’s attention in August 2018 by skipping school and standing outside the Swedish Parliament to seek a stronger response to climate change.

Last month, she spoke at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” the Swedish climate activist told the United Nations General Assembly. “How dare you?”

Greta appeared visibly frustrated with her UN audience and at times appeared to be holding back tears of anger.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words and yet, I’m one of the lucky ones,” she told the assembly, her signature long braid swept to the side. “People are suffering, people are dying.”

She started with weekly sit-ins outside the Swedish Parliament, holding a handmade “School Climate Strike” sign. In just a few months, the one-girl protest grew into a worldwide movement, with students walking out of schools in well over 100 countries.

Greta is taking a sabbatical year from school to attend conferences and meetings with policymakers and those impacted by climate change.

She was widely considered by bookmakers to be the favorite to win the 100th Nobel Peace Prize this week. Greta would have become its youngest ever recipient — a year younger than Malala Yousafzai was when she shared the award in 2014.

The award this year went instead to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia for his role in ending the 20-year war between his country and Eritrea.