In 2018, Thunberg tweeted a quote from a scientist warning that humanity would become extinct unless drastic action against global warming was undertaken within five years.
After being criticized over the tweet five years later, she deleted it in 2023, which only fueled the criticism further. Critics piled on even more after the 20-year-old deleted her doomsday missive and reposted a screenshot of the prediction.
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However, defenders of Thunberg pointed out that the scientist she was quoting was not predicting all of humanity would be wiped out in five years but that humanity only had five years to address the issue before the effects of climate change would eventually lead to the extinction of humanity. Snopes marked the ridicule as partly true because Thunberg did delete the tweet. It also reported not being able to obtain a comment about the controversy from Thunberg.
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