Greta Thunberg

In Rajan's latest interview, the climate activist revealed a different side to the one seen so often in news footage.

At the ancient age of 19, is she starting to get a bit old hat? So that was the tone, but what of the substance? Frequently, she dissolved into helpless giggles, as when Rajan deployed his quickfire question round and asked which person “you’d like to meet who’s dead”.

Greta Thunberg has said she and other young activists are bearing too much responsibility in the face of the climate crisis.

She told the BBC’s Amol Rajan: “I just think it’s genuinely funny. “Because people always say to me like, ‘oh, it’s so hopeful when I see you guys and it gives me hope for the future, I’m not as worried anymore.’ And often I keep a straight face. I just wish sometimes that people would take up a bit more responsibility.

Activist Greta Thunberg's interview to the BBC about her new book will air on Tuesday evening. Still a teenager, she has become the face of climate protest, ...

[The Independent](https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/greta-thunberg-interview-climate-change-b2204681.html), she agreed that “the methods that some people have been using are very questionable and maybe do more harm than good”. But she followed-up, saying that “most people are just genuinely worried about the future of humanity and want to do everything they can”. [BBC](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/bbc) ahead of the publication of her book, The Climate Book. Thunberg said Asperger’s “sometimes makes me a bit different from the norm” but that she sees being different as a “superpower”. [Teen](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/teenagers) climate activist [Greta Thunberg](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/greta-thunberg) has given world leaders a dressing down, sailed across the Atlantic to avoid flying and has become the pin-up for the environmental movement. Speaking three years ago, Thunberg said that when she started her climate action campaign she had “no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone”.

So who did the BBC decide was sufficiently down with the kids to speak to the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg at a London wetland centre? Why, the Today ...

Ms Thunberg rose to fame after she skipped school and inspired an international movement to fight climate change in 2018.

I am not an angry teenager. The 19-year-old Swedish environmental activist was speaking to BBC in an exclusive interview where she shared her thoughts about climate change, politics, and the continuous abuse on social media. “Sometimes I can snap. She told BBC: “What I am most bothered about is when people lie about me and spread, like, conspiracy theories - because I can't lie, so when other people lie about me, it's like, 'No - don't.’” In the latest video released by BBC, she is seen saying that she is not an “angry teenager” but is often portrayed as one. Climate activist Greta Thunberg has vowed not to pursue a career in politics as she finds it “too toxic”, a news report has stated.

And vowed to not stop until her government had done something about the climate change crisis. advertisement. It didn't take long for her message ...

“Pretending to take the presence seriously of the people who are being affected already today by the climate crisis. “The proceeds that I will make will go to charity. It would be nice to have money, but by donating… I’ve gone from someone who never speaks to someone who hardly ever shuts up. Inside COP there are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously,” she said. I try, as much as I can, to not speak about individuals. “But of course, it is very hilarious when they write and say these kinds of things. No more whatever the fuck they’re doing inside there,” Thunberg continued. “How dare you,” she exclaimed. No more exploitation. “I don’t see it as ‘I want revenge’ or something. How dare you?”

We are living in a state of emergency: the climate, ecological and sustainability crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced.

We have a duty to help as many of our fellow citizens as possible understand the dire situation we are in. A critical mass of people – especially younger people – are demanding change and will no longer tolerate the procrastination, denial and complacency that created this state of emergency. [on fracking](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-63073666), announced more than 100 new licences for oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, and pledged to [ban solar power](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/10/ministers-hope-to-ban-solar-projects-from-most-english-farms) from most of England’s agricultural land. At the age of 19, I already feel like a broken record – but we need to keep repeating the message on climate action, constantly. The surge in the price of fossil fuels since Since 1950 the global number of floods has [increased by a factor of 15 and wildfires by a factor of seven](https://www.ippr.org/files/2019-11/this-is-a-crisis-feb19.pdf). The abnormally hot and cold temperatures experienced throughout the world (temperatures in Britain [passed 40°C](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62335975) for the first time in July) caused by global heating are thought to contribute to as many as [five million human deaths](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/extreme-temperatures-kill-5-million-people-a-year-with-heat-related-deaths-rising-study-finds) a year. We should abandon the illusion that our politicians will come to the rescue of planet Earth, especially those who delight in calling themselves climate leaders. In attempting to remove protective laws and regulations, Truss has launched what wildlife groups from the RSPB to the National Trust have called [“an attack on nature”](https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/rspb-news/rspb-news-stories/uk-government-attack-on-nature/). This is the point at which the risk of irreversible and catastrophic climate change significantly increases. Confronted by this existential threat, the world’s political leaders are in denial, actively delaying change and distracting the electorate. [climate](https://www.newstatesman.com/tag/climate-change), ecological and sustainability crisis is the greatest threat humanity has ever faced.