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Headline: 60-ft-tall Mural Of Environmental Activist Greta Thunberg Appears In San Francisco

Caption: IN PHOTO: Artist Andrés Iglesias aka Cobre A 60-ft-tall mural of environmental activist Greta Thunberg has appeared in San Francisco. The enormous eight-storey painting will tower over residents and visitors near Union Square in the heart of the city’s downtown. The artist behind the mural, Argentine Andrés Iglesias - known as Cobre - collaborated with not-profit-organisation One Atmosphere and is donating his time for free to the project. Andrés said he hoped it would impress on those who saw it the necessity of taking action against climate change. “Climate change is real. This girl Greta is awesome and she knows what she’s doing,” he told the local news website SFGate. “I hope with this mural people will realise we have to take care of the world.” Paul Scott, the director of local environmental charity One Atmosphere, said he hoped the Greta Thunberg artwork would be the first of many depicting climate change activists across San Francisco. “Greta is having profound effects on the environmental movement right now,” Mr Scott also told SFGate. “We’re hoping [the mural] is going to touch people and that it will open up their hearts and minds to the unbridled conviction of Greta’s message. “She is a bright light in a dark time and we hope people will follow her lead and make some changes.”

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PersonInImage: Andrés Iglesias, Cobre