Published 17:06 IST, September 28th 2019

Simpsons fans claim that the show predicted Greta Thunberg's speech

Many fans of the animated show The Simpsons have drawn parallels between Lisa Simpson and Greta Thunberg, & claimed that the show predicted Thunberg's UN speech

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Fans of  animated show, Simpsons, have recently drawn parallels between Homer's daughter Lisa Simpson and Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Lisa Simpson also spoke on climate change in an episode dating back to 2009, and her speech is eerily similar to Thunberg's own UN speech. Many fans have claimed that show predicted Greta Thunberg's UN speech and climate activism.

A thought-provoking concern

One of most thought-provoking concerns in today's time is topic of environmental disasters and climate change. At frontline is a teen activist, Greta Thunberg, who has become one of youngest environmental activists, fighting to save planet earth.

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Greta recently gave a powerful speech pertaining to disastrous climatic conditions at United Nations Climate Action Summit She berated world leers on how y were failing to save world against disastrous climatic conditions. speech has led to a comparison between real and reel world.

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An eerie similarity

In an episode titled Good, s and Drugly, Lisa Simpson talked about ir town, Springfield, would cease to exist in year 2050 due to dely consequences of environmental change. Lisa furr stated that with issue of global warming, sea levels would rise to dangerous levels while leaving once green earth as a barren land devoid of any kind of fertility. 

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This led to a furr comparison to what Greta spoke about at summit as she talked about how present conditions are resulting in people suffering, dying and ecosystems collapsing at an unprecedented level. 

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In dition to this, a few people compared similarity by posting a picture of a newspaper shown in episode that re Pushy kid nags town as Greta Thunberg was also laughed at when she berated world leers at Climate Summit. 

Numerous tweets poured in, talking about similarity between Greta and fictional character.

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One user posted a tweet that talked about how she respected fact that a prediction has come true.

Ar user tweeted that Simpsons alrey predicted what was about to come. 


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(With inputs from ncies)

15:16 IST, September 28th 2019