Greta the Great – Our Time’s Jeanne D´Arc, Florence Nightingale, and Fatima Al-Fihriya

In a time when bombs fall on cities, when nations rearm while the seas rise, humanity has entered a new kind of war. Not just a war between people, but a war against the future. The climate crisis is no longer a threat, it is a reality, and its consequences are intertwined with other catastrophes, like in a bleeding Gaza, where cries for peace are drowned out by the roar of fighter jets. In this chaos, where many leaders fall silent or deny the truth, one young woman remains standing: Greta Thunberg. A prophet 2.0, armed with reason, rage, and an unbreakable will to defend life.

She is not a politician. Not a scientist. Not a soldier. Yet she has become one of the most influential voices of our time. She holds no weapon, other than her full and fearless self, and her words cut through the fog of corruption like a sword.

Greta Thunberg is an icon of our age. A clear voice of truth in a world desperately trying to cover up the devastation of evil.

A modern Jeanne D´Arc – with climate, justice and peace as her battlefield

Just as Jeanne D´Arc heard her inner calling in a France torn by war, Greta has stepped forward in a world burning its future to preserve its power. Jeanne defied kings and clergy; Greta challenges governments, the fossil fuel industry, and military anarchy. She is mocked, threatened, ridiculed. But she does not flinch. She says what many refuse to hear, and it is precisely why she is seen as dangerous. But she is only brave and true.

“Our house is on fire,” Greta said in Davos in 2019. The house is still burning, and now on multiple fronts.

Florence Nightingale with climate reports and the cries of war in her ears

Greta is not only a warrior, she is the Viking Queen. Just as Florence Nightingale carried the lamp through the shadows of war, Greta carries the light of compassion through our collective denial and grief. She fights for the climate, but also for life, for peace, and for the most vulnerable. When she calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, she shows that the climate struggle is not an isolated issue, it is a battle for life itself and for our shared future.

“There can be no climate justice without human rights and freedom for all.”

When our young climate activist takes a stand in one of today’s most divisive conflicts, she may lose some support, but she gains something far greater: respect and integrity.

The climate cost of war – the invisible carbon in the air

What is rarely discussed is that wars kill more than people. They destroy animals and landscapes. They poison soils, annihilate infrastructure, burn forests, and release greenhouse gases never counted in climate accords. The world’s military machines are among the biggest environmental polluters, yet are often exempt from international climate commitments.

Demanding peace is therefore not just a moral imperative, it is a climate strategy. Greta sees what few dare say: the fight for peace and the fight for the climate are two sides of the same reckoning with an unsustainable system.

Coexistence – the real climate goal

To live in peace with one another is to live in peace with nature. Peace grants time to build, to grieve, to restore. Greta Thunberg doesn’t just speak of ppm and temperature curves, she speaks of justice. Of colonial wounds, economic exploitation, cultural erasure. She reminds us that climate change is not a natural disaster, it is a social catastrophe, caused by people, and therefore also possible to stop.
The most radical act today may not be to protest, but to refuse to accept the status quo. Refuse to adapt.Refuse to give in.

A builder of the future – in the spirit of Fatima Al-Fihriya

Greta is not just one who shouts from the barricades. She is also a builder. Through education, public enlightenment, and an unshakeable belief in people’s ability to understand and change. In that sense, she also echoes Fatima Al-Fihriya, the woman who over a thousand years ago founded the world’s first university in Fez. A Muslim visionary who saw knowledge as an act of liberation, and whose legacy still lives on. Like Fatima, Greta lays the foundation for something larger than herself. She does not build walls, she builds awareness.

Final words – our conscience in the form of a megaphone

Greta Thunberg is our Jeanne D´Arc, without the sword. She is our Florence Nightingale, with a megaphone. She is our Fatima Al-Fihriya, a future architect in a fractured and falling world. She is not just a voice for the climate. She is a voice for the silenced, for the slain, for the generations to come. Her struggle is not comfortable. It is not easy. But it is wholehearted. It is essential.
And in a world torn apart by hate, consumerism, and cynicism, that may be what we need most of all: multitudes of Gretas.

NB: Now is the time for unity—not division. Not separation by ideology, religion, or background, but a coming together of all who serve humanity and the future of our planet. Greta’s message cuts across boundaries and calls us to meet in shared purpose: to protect what is left, and to imagine what is still possible. Only together can we turn despair into direction—and silence into song.