Maybe it's petty, but I have to admit that I find myself slightly annoyed by the fact that Greta Thunberg is now a front runner for the Nobel peace prize. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly nothing against her. It's the superficiality of the whole thing; it's great that she's raising awareness, but she's coming in at the tail end of a decades long battle for the public mind, at a point where the majority of people is already on board, and she is just saying what scientists and skeptics have been saying for many many years. Some of those people have had their lives destroyed and their reputations tarnished over and over, and yet they have kept going. Yet they get no credit. She tells adults to adult for once, and everyone cheers like it's a totally new concept. If she was 4 years older, I suspect that she would not get much attention. Certainly not her fault, but it feels like this reaction is kind of like a symptom of everything that is wrong with our societies.
(And yes, I know the peace prize is kind of a joke - I mean, Henry Kissinger, really? - but that's kind of the point.)