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Margot Robbie snubbed as Oscar nominations announced

The nominations for the 96th academy awards has been announced, and despite Barbie being nominated for eight awards, there were a few notable snubs that fans aren't happy about. The film’s star, Margot Robbie, was not nominated for best actress, despite co-star Ryan Gosling receiving a nomination for best supporting actor for his role as Ken. The film's director Greta Gerwig, was also snubbed as she was not nominated for best director. Fans took to social media to express their thoughts, with many of them unhappy with the academy's choice. "So Ryan Gosling’s nominated for playing ken but Margot Robbie isn’t nominated for playing barbie… in barbie," one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> So Ryan Gosling’s nominated for playing ken but Margot Robbie isn’t nominated for playing barbie… in barbie <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Oscars?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Oscars</a> <a href="https://t.co/uceB20BB8H">pic.twitter.com/uceB20BB8H</a> — poppy ☾ (@scddevereaux) <a href="https://twitter.com/scddevereaux/status/1749792570840907879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote> "No nomination for Margot Robbie or Greta Gerwig for the #Oscars but Ryan Gosling gets one. Literally the whole point of the Barbie film," another wrote. "Greta Gerwig made a film that was critically acclaimed, culturally impactful, hilarious, unique, visually exceptional, perfectly cast and acted, left people laughing, crying and thinking AND made a billion dollars at the box office. But no Best Director nom?!" another tweeted. One particular tweet went viral, with over 109 thousand likes. "Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the Real World," the tweet read. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> Ken getting nominated and not Barbie is honestly so fitting for a film about a man discovering the power of patriarchy in the Real World. — Michael. (@yosoymichael) <a href="https://twitter.com/yosoymichael/status/1749794592076034203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2024</a></blockquote> In a more positive light, America Ferrara, who played Gloria in Barbie, was nominated for best supporting actress with many saying that her character's passionate speech on feminism had sealed the deal. The film was also nominated for Best Picture, and two nods for best song including Gosling's popular solo I'm Just Ken, and Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For. Image: Getty

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Aussies lament the end of ancient "Beers for Garbos" tradition

Here in Australia, where rubbish collectors are celebrated annually with a frosty brew (or six), a cherished tradition is facing its untimely demise. Yes, you guessed it right – the legendary "Beers for Garbos" tradition, where grateful locals adorn their wheelie bins with a six-pack of beer as a token of appreciation, is disappearing faster than a cold beer on a scorching summer day. For generations, Aussies have upheld this festive practice, a heartwarming exchange between citizens and their garbage collectors during the most wonderful time of the year. But alas, the tides are turning, and it seems the days of beer-topped bins are numbered. The alarm was sounded when a concerned citizen took to the virtual streets of Reddit to lament the decline of this time-honoured tradition. "I've been doing this for 20 years, only the last two years they don't seem interested. Is this a tradition we are losing?" cried out the desperate Redditor, faced with the heartbreaking prospect of having their VB left unwanted and unclaimed. Speculations ran wild in the digital realm, with theories ranging from light-fingered neighbours to the outrageous notion that beer might not be as popular as it once was. However, Veolia, the giant among waste management companies in Australia, quickly extinguished the fiery speculations. Veolia's chief operating officer of environment, Tony Roderick, delivered the crushing blow, confirming that the "Beers for Garbos" tradition had taken its last bow. The culprit? Health and safety concerns, the perennial party poopers of workplace festivities. Roderick explained, "Packages of beer become missiles in the cabin of the truck under emergency braking." Picture this: a garbage truck hurtling down the suburban streets, emergency brakes screeching, and inside, a symphony of exploding beer bottles. It's a hazardous scenario that even the most seasoned garbage collector might find hard to navigate. Moreover, Veolia has a company-wide dry workplace policy, dashing hopes of a beer-fuelled trash pickup. But fear not, for Roderick is not entirely Ebenezer Scrooge. He encourages alternative forms of gift-giving. "Should people want to leave a small gift for their local driver, it is possible to leave it at the local depot where the driver can collect it at the end of the shift." So, instead of a six-pack perched on the bin, envision a quaint scene of a garbage collector picking up a thoughtful gift basket at the depot – the stuff of modern Aussie holiday magic. As we bid adieu to the "Beers for Garbos" era, let's raise a glass in fond remembrance. May your wheelie bins be forever adorned with the spirit of giving, even if the contents are now strictly non-alcoholic. Cheers to a new era of sober, yet equally heartfelt, expressions of gratitude for our unsung garbage heroes! Images: Facebook

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Greta Thunberg slapped with first conviction over climate protest

Greta Thunberg has been fined by a court in Sweden after she refused to obey the orders of Swedish police officers at a climate change protest. The 20-year-old activist pleaded not guilty to the charges, saying she disobeyed the direct police order to leave a climate protest as an act of necessity. “My actions are justifiable,” Thunberg told the court in Malmö, according to local media outlets. “I believe that we are in an emergency that threatens life, health and property. Countless people and communities are at risk both in the short term and in the long term.” Thunberg was part of a group of protesters that blocked the road for oil trucks trying to gain access to Malmö harbour. She was charged for failing to leave when ordered to do so by police. Thunberg has been slapped with a fine for breaching the order, although it is not clear how much she will have to pay, as the fine will be based on her reported income. Thunberg became the face of the youth climate protest movement in 2018, when she began skipping school each Friday at the age of 15 to stage solo climate protests outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm, holding up a sign reading, “Skolstrejk för klimatet” (school strike for climate). Despite regular school strikes and protests losing some momentum with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Thunberg has continued to travel the world joining climate protests and speaking at international summits, urging world leaders to act on the climate crisis. Image credits: Getty Images

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Margot Robbie’s eye watering movie salary revealed

Margot Robbie has become the highest paid Hollywood actress thanks to her role in Greta Gerwig’s live action Barbie movie. The Australian actress, 32, takes on the lead role of Barbie in the upcoming film and received an eye watering USD$12.5 million (AUD$18.1 million) for it. This hefty sum now places Margot on the top of the list of Hollywood’s highest paid actresses. Her salary definitely soared since her last blockbuster Birds of Prey which saw her earn USD$10 million (AUD$14.6 million). Her co-star, heartthrob Ryan Gosling was reportedly paid the same amount for playing the lead male role in the film. Margot said that she is excited for the film to be released and it will certainly bring in a different type of audience. “We like the things that feel a little left of center. Something like Barbie where the IP, the name itself, people immediately have an idea of, ‘Oh, Margot is playing Barbie, I know what that is’,” she said. “But our goal is to be like, ‘Whatever you’re thinking, we’re going to give you something totally different—the thing you didn’t know you wanted’.” Barbie is expected to be released in July 2023. Image: IMDB

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Greta Garbo's eccentric former home hits the market

Hollywood icon Greta Garbo's former New York home has hit the market for an impressive $7.25 million. The stunning three-bedroom, three-bathroom Manhattan apartment retains many of her personal touches and eccentric furnishings, making it stand out from other luxury homes. The apartment last sold for $8.5 million in 2017 after a fierce bidding war, with many fans of the Swedish-American actress expected to be vying for the property this time around. The home boasts large picture windows with spectacular views of the East River, which was said to have reminded Greta of her native Stockholm. It also includes a newly renovated kitchen, dining room, many living areas, and numerous bathrooms, with most rooms boasting an impressive chandelier. The living room – which was Greta's favorite space – includes a gas fireplace and an attached den, while French doors at the far end open to a lovely balcony cooled by river breezes. The primary bedroom suite features Greta's beloved rose-hued Fortuny silk walls and headboard, while a second bedroom includes a pink-and-green-accented V'Soske rug personally designed by the movie star. Greta, who was best known for her roles in A Woman of Affairs, Anna Christie, Romance, and Camille, died in 1990 at the age of 85, but retired from acting when she was just 35, leading a private life in her New York apartment for 50 years. Image credits: Getty Images / Compass Real Estate

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Greta Thunberg calls out Jacinda Ardern over emissions

Climate activist Greta Thunberg <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/climate-change-greta-thunberg-takes-another-swipe-at-jacinda-ardern/8606cc8d-4c73-4c0b-840b-493451825c60" target="_blank">has called out</a> world leaders, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, for not doing enough to combat climate change. During an interview with <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/25/greta-thunberg-i-really-see-the-value-of-friendship-apart-from-the-climate-almost-nothing-else-matters?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>, Ms Thunberg said she couldn’t think of any politician who has impressed her. When asked about Ms Ardern specifically, Ms Thunberg noted that New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions haven’t decreased. “It’s funny that people believe Jacinda Ardern and people like that are climate leaders. That just tells you how little people know about the climate crisis,” she said. “Obviously the emissions haven’t fallen. It goes without saying that these people are not doing anything.” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUSA2t1sOGe/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUSA2t1sOGe/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)</a> </div> </blockquote> In December, Thunberg described New Zealand’s commitment to reducing 1 percent of emissions by 2025 as “nothing unique to any nation”. In April, it was revealed that New Zealand’s emissions increased by 2 percent in 2019. Though emissions fell by 4.5 percent in the year ending in March 2020 due to the pandemic, levels began to increase towards the end of the recorded year. Climate Change Minister James Shaw said Ms Thunberg was correct to say New Zealand’s emissions hadn’t increased. “That is why the work our Government is doing is so important - and clearly we have a lot of work to do,” he told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300416129/greta-thunberg-takes-another-swipe-at-jacinda-arderns-response-to-climate-change" target="_blank">Stuff</a> on Sunday. “This is a marathon event involving every minister and every part of Government.” From 2022, the Climate Commission wants New Zealand to meet a decreasing “carbon budget”, which details the amount of greenhouse gas the country can “spend” each year. In December, Ms Ardern responded to Ms Thunberg’s initial comments by clarifying that New Zealand had bigger goals than one emissions target. “If that was the sum ambition of any government, then that would be worthy of criticism; it is not our sum ambition and it is not the totality of our plans on climate change,” the Prime Minister said. “But again, I think that it is actually for us just to get on with the business of fulfilling our obligations and expectations.” Image: Getty Images

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Greta Thunberg's first vaccine comes with global statement

Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, took to social media, tweeting: "Today I got my first COVID-19 vaccination dose. I am extremely grateful and privileged to be able to live in a part of the world where I can already get vaccinated." But then she went on to blast the more wealthy countries for taking more than their fair share of the vaccines. She wrote: "The vaccine distribution around the world is extremely unequal. The Swedish climate activist, 18, tweeted a photograph of herself wearing a fox-print face mask with a bandaid on her upper arm, using the hashtags '#VaccineEquity' and '#VaccineForAll'. Thunberg is one of a number of famous people, encouraging others to get the jab as soon as it's available to them. What she says about the distribution of the vaccines has been backed up by media such as the New York Times which reported recently: "84 percent of shots that have gone into arms worldwide have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries. Only 0.3 percent of doses have been administered in low-income countries.'' Other celebrities including David Beckham and Billie Eilish, have asked world leaders to share surplus COVID vaccines with poorer countries. Before the G7 summit in June, Unicef ambassadors warned in an open letter how important it would be to ensure the "fair and equitable" supplies of vaccines internationally or the world would continue to be at risk from future mutations of the virus.

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Greta Thunberg puts US Congress to the sword

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg grilled politicians during a US congressional hearing held on Earth Day, with a warning that they couldn’t ‘get away with’ inaction on climate change forever. The 18-year-old activist appeared before the House Oversight Subcommittee while it held a hearing on fossil fuel subsidies. This came on the same day as President Joe Biden and other world leaders came together for a climate change summit where several countries committed to ambitious emission reduction targets. Attending the hearing via video call, Ms Thunberg told Congress members, “I don’t represent any financial or political interests. I’m not a lobbyist, so I can’t negotiate, make deals or compromise. I have nothing to offer you, nor am I a scientist.” “All I can do is urge you to listen to and act on the science and to use your common sense.” “It is the year 2021. The fact that we are still having this discussion, and even more that we are still subsidising fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money, it’s a disgrace,” she continued. “It is clear proof that we have not understood the climate emergency at all.” Ms Thunberg also commented on the “huge gap” between the best science now available on climate change and current “so-called climate policies”. “It may seem like we are asking a lot, and you will of course say that we are naive. And that’s fine,” she said. “But at least we are not so naive that we believe things will be solved through countries and companies making vague, distant, insufficient targets without any real pressure from the media and the general public.” “What I’m here to say is that, unlike you, my generation will not give up without a fight. And to be honest, I don’t believe for a second that you will actually do this. The climate crisis doesn’t exist in the public debate today.” <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> "It is the year 2021. The fact we are still having this discussion and, even more, that we are still supporting fossil fuels directly or indirectly using taxpayer money is a disgrace." —<a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> <a href="https://t.co/273JYbDCB1">pic.twitter.com/273JYbDCB1</a> — Oversight Committee (@OversightDems) <a href="https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1385254719329869826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2021</a></blockquote> “And since it doesn’t really exist and the general level of awareness is so absurdly low, you will still get away with continuing to contribute to the destruction of present and future living conditions.” She continued to criticise the politicians up until the conclusion of her statement. “I know I’m not the one who is supposed to ask the questions here, but there is something I really do wonder. How long do you honestly believe that people in power, like you, will get away with it?” Ms Thunberg said. “How long do you think you can continue to ignore the crisis without being held accountable?” “You get away with it now, but sooner or later, people are going to realise what you have been doing all this time. That’s inevitable.” Despite her warning, Ms Thunberg encouraged the Congress members to consider their legacy. “You still have time to do the right thing and to save your legacies, but that window of time is not going to last for long. What happens then? We, the young people, are the ones who are going to write about you in the history books. We are the ones who get to decide how you will be remembered.” “So my advice for you is to choose wisely.” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN2hL6Rpc2j/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CN2hL6Rpc2j/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Bunny Hugger (@gretathunberg)</a> </div> </blockquote> Following her statement, the committee moved to questions and answers. Katie Porter, a Democratic Congresswoman, asked Ms Thunberg for her advice on how she should talk to her daughter about climate change. “I told my nine-year-old daughter I was going to be speaking with you, and I said, ‘What do you think about climate change?’ And she said, ‘The Earth is on fire, and we’re all going to die soon.’ And I asked how that made you feel, and she said it made her feel ‘angry’,” Ms Porter said. “What should I tell my daughter, and how should I help her and the youngest generation bear the emotional toll of the actions that we’re taking?” “That’s a big question,” said Ms Thunberg. “I know there are many young people who feel angry and sad, because of all the things some people are doing to this planet and to our futures.” “That’s very understandable. It would be strange if we didn’t feel that way, because then we wouldn’t have any empathy.” “But of course, there is still much hope. And if we choose to take action, then we can do this. There are unlimited things we can do, and if we choose to work together, there are no limits to what we can accomplish.” Ms Thunberg advised, “Always the best medication against anger and anxiety is to take action yourself. So that’s what I would tell her, to take action herself, because that will make her feel so much better. That’s what it did to me at least, and so many others.” Ahead of her appearance at the hearing, Ms Thunberg posted a video on social media captioned as “an emergency alert for the general public”, where she accused world leaders of setting “very insufficient targets”. “We cannot be satisfied with something just because it’s better than nothing,” she said. While the hearing was occurring, Mr Biden hosted a summit to address climate change with leaders, including Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Several presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs boasted about their own countries’ efforts in negating the effects of climate change, while occasionally committing to new targets. The US has committed to halve its emissions by 2030.

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Greta Thunberg’s parting shot to Donald Trump

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text redactor-styles redactor-in"> Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg has farewelled former US President Donald Trump with a clever tweet. Thunberg used Trump's words against him as she wrote: "He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!" The remark was just one of many Trump made about Thunberg in the past. The quote came from Trump after Thunberg's address to the Davos summit in 2020, saying that she "seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future." Thunberg's tweet was a hit with fans, reaching over 690,000 likes on Twitter. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> He seems like a very happy old man looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! <a href="https://t.co/G8gObLhsz9">pic.twitter.com/G8gObLhsz9</a> — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1351890941087522820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2021</a></blockquote> As many social media platforms banned Trump from using their services, he is unable to respond to Thunberg at this time. This isn't the first time the two have had a war of words, with Trump claiming that Thunberg's 2019 Time "Person of the Year" was "so ridiculous". "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!" he tweeted at the time. Thunberg sat on his words until Trump prompted electoral officials to "STOP THE COUNT" during the Presidential election race. "So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill!" Thunberg tweeted. Thunberg and Trump never met during his presidential term, with Thunberg saying it would have been a "waste of time". "I don't think I would have said anything because obviously he's not listening to scientists and experts, so why would he listen to me?" she told BBC Radio 4. </div> </div> </div>

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Greta Thunberg’s timely trolling of Trump ignites the internet

If you cast your mind back to December 2019, you might remember Donald Trump tweeting about Greta Thunberg’s “anger problem”. Well now, the teen climate activist has waited 11 months to get back at the president. After Trump falsely claimed victory before the results of the presidential election were released, he is now threatening legal action claiming there has been fraudulent activity occurring. Early Friday morning, Thunberg, 17, retweeted the former businessman's demand to "STOP THE COUNT", offering him some very familiar words of advice. "So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend!" the Nobel Peace Prize nominee wrote. "Chill Donald, Chill!" <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/4RNVBqRYBA">https://t.co/4RNVBqRYBA</a> — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1324439705522524162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2020</a></blockquote> Last year, Trump tweeted those exact words when Greta was named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. At the time, he was criticised for mocking a 16-year-old girl and her accomplishments. But the best response came from Greta herself, who changed her Twitter bio to let the world know she had taken on Trump’s advice. "A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend," her updated profile read. When the election polls opened earlier this week, Thunberg urged her American followers to use their vote wisely. "Today, many of you will have the opportunity to make a choice. Your vote will affect billions of people around the world," she wrote on her social media accounts. "Your vote will affect countless of generations to come. Use it. Use it well. Every election is a climate election."

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Greta Thunberg’s mother opens up on teenager’s childhood struggles

Climate change activism helped Greta Thunberg overcome bullying and an eating disorder, the teenager’s mother has revealed in a new book. The Thunberg family detailed the 17-year-old’s early life in Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis, due to be published in March. In an extract published on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/23/great-thunberg-malena-ernman-our-house-is-on-fire-memoir-extract">The Observer</a>, opera singer Malena Ernman explained that her daughter started struggling with selective mutism and eating disorder at the age of 11. “She was slowly disappearing into some kind of darkness and little by little, bit by bit, she seemed to stop functioning,” Ernman wrote. “She stopped playing the piano. She stopped laughing. She stopped talking. And she stopped eating.” Thunberg lost 10kgs in two months. Her parents later found out she was experiencing bullying at school, ranging from being shoved in the playground to being “lured to strange places”. But the school thought it was “Greta’s own fault”, because other students reported that she had “behaved strangely and spoken too softly”, Ernman wrote. Thunberg was later diagnosed with Asperger’s and obsessive-compulsive disorder. She turned a corner after watching a film in class one day about rubbish in the oceans. The whole class was affected, but her classmates soon moved on to other topics, including their teacher’s upcoming trip to New York and other cities with great shopping. “Greta can’t reconcile any of this with any of what she has just seen,” her mother wrote. “She saw what the rest of us did not want to see. It was as if she could see our CO2 emissions with her naked eye.” In the summer of 2018, Thunberg began her first school strike for the climate and started eating again. Her protests started gaining traction around the world. “We get death threats on social media, excrement through the letter box, and social services report that they have received a great number of complaints against us as Greta’s parents,” her mother wrote. “But at the same time they state in the letter that they ‘do NOT intend to take any action’. We think of the capital letters as a little love note from an anonymous official. And it warms us.”

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“She lives a teenage life like no other”: Greta Thunberg to get her own TV series

BBC Studios has announced a new documentary series about Greta Thunberg, following the 17-year-old’s “international crusade” with environmental campaigning. The new show will see Thunberg meet with scientists, politicians and businesspeople to explore the evidence around climate change. It also promises to share her “journey into adulthood” and some “quiet moments” as she prepares her speeches and “lives a teenage life like no other”. “Climate change is probably the most important issue of our lives so it feels timely to make an authoritative series that explores the facts and science behind this complex subject,” executive producer Rob Liddell said in a statement Monday. “To be able to do this with Greta is an extraordinary privilege, getting an inside view on what it’s like being a global icon and one of the most famous faces on the planet.” The title and number of episodes are yet to be determined. Thunberg is also the subject of a Hulu documentary airing this year, <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/bbc-studios-series-greta-thunberg-1202856214/" target="_blank">Deadline</a> reported. Thunberg came into prominence after she began organising school climate strikes in 2018. She <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/10/greta-thunberg-to-make-new-documentary-series-for-the-bbc" target="_blank">has since addressed the UN Climate Action Summit</a> and been named Person of the Year for 2019 by Time magazine. The climate activist has argued that too little is being done by political leaders to address rising global temperatures.

Roger Federer responds to Greta Thunberg criticism: “I am misused”

Tennis veteran Roger Federer has responded mounting scrutiny regarding his controversial partnership with Swiss bank Credit Suisse after he was criticised by Greta Thunberg last month. In January, a group of climate activists raided a Credit Suisse office in Switzerland to protest against the bank's investments in fossil fuels. The dozen of activists began to play tennis in a stiff call-out to Federer as they urged him to cut ties with the institution which they claim has provided over $85 billion to companies searching for new fossil fuel deposits. Brandishing banners read: "Credit Suisse is destroying the planet. Roger, do you support them?" Thunberg would soon retweet the initial post from 350.org, asking Federer to "wake up now". That gave birth to the hashtag #RogerWakeUpNow which was quick to begin trending on Twitter. Prior to the Australian Open the 38-year-old had touched on the incident claiming that he was open to "innovative solutions" to climate change and discussing "important issues" with Credit Suisse. "I take the impacts and threat of climate change very seriously, particularly as my family and I arrive in Australia amid devastation from the bush fire," Federer said in a statement to Reuters. But before his charity exhibition match against Rafael Nadal in South Africa over the weekend, the Swiss Maestro doubled own on his stance, and argued his persona was being leveraged. However before he began his charity exhibition match against Rafael Nadal in South Africa over the weekend, he argued his personal was being leveraged. "I am sometimes misused for certain purposes," Federer told Swiss publication Tages Anzeiger. "When I help one person, I am criticised for not doing it with others. I have reached a point where I have to think carefully about what I am doing. "But I also have to be able to overlook criticism. I can't be everywhere, I can't do everything. I am also a father and tennis player. "I am aware that I can make a difference, take the microphone and address certain things. But I can't do that all the time. "It is important that you choose the right things at the right time and get your message across in a fair way. Not by attacking others. "I know I can make a difference with my popularity. For others, for the planet, for the animals. And I think it's good what has recently been raised about collective consciousness." Federer’s charity initiative at Cape Town Stadium was to raise money for the Roger Federer Foundation. His organisation supports early childhood education in six African countries. The foundation was hoping to top $US1 million from the exhibition. It raised a whopping $US3.5 million.

Prince Charles meets Greta Thunberg before addressing World Economic Forum

Donald Trump might not have wanted to meet Greta Thunberg but the future King of England was thrilled to meet Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Prince Charles, an environmental campaigner himself, looked overjoyed to meet the teen activist at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Clarence House shared two photos on their social media page, showing the pair shaking hands and beaming at the cameras. As the media gathered around them, Thunberg said to the Prince of Wales: “I guess you’re very used to this.” “Very true, it’s taken me years to get used to this,” said Charles, to which Thunberg replied: “I am still not used to this.” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oByWLAgYf/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B7oByWLAgYf/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">The Prince of Wales meets environmental activist @GretaThunberg at @worldeconomicforum 2020. #wef</a> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/clarencehouse/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Clarence House</a> (@clarencehouse) on Jan 22, 2020 at 6:33am PST </div> </blockquote> The photos seem to have been taken backstage before the Prince of Wales spoke to a room full of political leaders from around the world, including Trump. Prince Charles gave the keynote speech at the 50th Anniversary of the World Economic Forum and officially launched his Sustainable Markets Council. The project aims “to work towards a more inclusive, equitable and green market for all.” In his speech, the royal said: “We are in the midst of a crisis that is now, I hope, well understood. Global warming, climate change, and the devastating loss of biodiversity are the greatest threats humanity has ever faced – and one largely of our own creation. “I have dedicated much of my life to the restoration of harmony between humanity, nature and the environment, and to the encouragement of corporate social and environmental responsibility. “Quite frankly, it has been a bit of an uphill struggle. But, now, it is time to take it to the next level.”

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Roger Federer hits back at Greta Thunberg’s swipe

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text "> Greta Thunberg has added her voice to the mounting criticism against Roger Federer and his partnership with Credit Suisse, Swiss banking giants. She retweeted a post from 350.org Europe that claims Credit Suisse has given $57 billion to companies that are looking for new fossil fuel deposits and advocated that Federer should drop the partnership. “Roger Federer do you endorse this?” the tweet reads. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> Since 2016 <a href="https://twitter.com/CreditSuisse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CreditSuisse</a> has provided $57 BILLION to companies looking for new fossil fuel deposits - something that is utterly incompatible with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClimateAction</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RogerFederer</a> do you endorse this? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RogerWakeUpNow?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RogerWakeUpNow</a> <a href="https://t.co/ED1fIvb4Cr">pic.twitter.com/ED1fIvb4Cr</a> — 350.org Europe (@350Europe) <a href="https://twitter.com/350Europe/status/1214843923329363970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">8 January 2020</a></blockquote> Federer has since issued a statement that addresses his partnership with Credit Suisse. “I take the impacts and threat of climate change very seriously, particularly as my family and I arrive in Australia amidst devastation from the bushfires,” a statement from Federer said. “As the father of four young children and a fervent supporter of universal education, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the youth climate movement, and I am grateful to young climate activists for pushing us all to examine our behaviours and act on innovative solutions. We owe it to them and ourselves to listen. “I appreciate reminders of responsibility as a private individual, as an athlete and as an entrepreneur, and I’m committed to using this privileged position to dialogue on important issues with my sponsors.” However, Simon Briggs of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://sports.yahoo.com/roger-federer-issues-non-committal-154526085.html" target="_blank">UK Telegraph</a> has said that the statement is “non-committal”. “Federer’s response to Thunberg and company contained plenty of words without making the slightest commitment to changing his relationship with Credit Suisse.” It’s clear that Credit Suisse intend to keep the partnership with Federer, even after his sporting career is done and dusted. “For Credit Suisse, Roger Federer is an ideal international ambassador,” the bank said. “The values it shares with Credit Suisse, such as the quest for excellence and determination, make it a highly sought-after partner for the long term. “It is therefore expected that this partnership with Credit Suisse will extend beyond his sports career.” Federer is currently in Australia as he prepares for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam event of the year. </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-action-bar-component-wrapper"> <div class="post-actions-component"> <div class="upper-row"> <div class="watched-bookmark-container"></div> </div> </div> </div>

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Greta Thunberg hits back at Meatloaf’s claim she’s “brainwashed”

Singer Meatloaf, 72, made headlines when he told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7836977/Self-confessed-sex-god-Meat-Loaf-72-threesomes-losing-70lb-climate-change.html" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a> that he believes that climate change activist and teenager Greta Thunberg has been brainwashed. The singer also said that he believes that there is no such thing as climate change. “I feel for that Greta. She has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't,” he explained. “She hasn't done anything wrong, but she's been forced into thinking that what she is saying is true.” The now 17-year-old has since hit back saying that climate change is bigger than the both of them. "It's not about Meatloaf. It's not about me. It's not about what some people call me. It's not about left or right. It's all about scientific facts. And that we're not aware of the situation. Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach," Thunberg wrote. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> It’s not about Meatloaf. It’s not about me. It’s not about what some people call me. It’s not about left or right. It’s all about scientific facts. And that we’re not aware of the situation. Unless we start to focus everything on this, our targets will soon be out of reach. <a href="https://t.co/UwyoSnLiK2">https://t.co/UwyoSnLiK2</a> — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1214150289378435072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2020</a></blockquote> Meatloaf shares the same view as US President Donald Trump, who tweeted that Thunberg should “stay in school”. The pair have a relationship that stemmed from an appearance from Meatloaf on the 2010 season of Trump’s show The Apprentice.

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First class mistake: Greta Thunberg caught out on German trains slip-up

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been hit with a new wave of criticism online after a recently made speech and social media post were called out online. The new attacks on the 16-year-old teenager came after she shared a picture of her journey home to Sweden after months of travelling the world calling for climate action. Ms Thunberg shared a photograph of herself sitting on the floor of a train, surrounded by a heap of luggage onto her social media accounts. She has kept vocal about her decision not to travel by plane, as they are considered major contributions to climate change. "Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I'm finally on my way home!" the caption accompanying the image said. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I’m finally on my way home! <a href="https://t.co/ssfLCPsR8o">pic.twitter.com/ssfLCPsR8o</a> — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1205969006982815751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">14 December 2019</a></blockquote> The German railway company she was travelling with, Deutsche Bahn, quickly responded to Ms Thunberg’s post, wishing the young teen a safe journey home. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> Noch schöner wäre es gewesen, wenn Du zusätzlich auch berichtet hättest, wie freundlich und kompetent Du von unserem Team an Deinem Sitzplatz in der Ersten Klasse betreut worden bist. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Greta?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Greta</a> 2/2 — Deutsche Bahn AG (@DB_Presse) <a href="https://twitter.com/DB_Presse/status/1206182674949382145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">15 December 2019</a></blockquote> Deutsche Bahn added the company were working hard on improving connections, trains and seats. However, the German railway company later released a statement saying Ms Thunberg had a first-class seat between Kassel and Hamburg. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> OMG even German Rail companies are now dunking on the fraud that is <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>! 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/aAQjJJNWAt">pic.twitter.com/aAQjJJNWAt</a> — Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1206290440523255808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">15 December 2019</a></blockquote> The statement revealed further that other members of her team were sitting in first class from Frankfurt onwards. Deutsche Bahn also took to twitter twice more to speak on Ms Thunberg's train travels through Germany. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> It seems Greta is now telling a few untruths to further her agenda. The German National train service were forced to publicly correct her untruths after they were condemned on twitter because Greta suggested she was forced to sit on the foor, when in fact she was in 1st class. <a href="https://t.co/IYl4g8YYjY">pic.twitter.com/IYl4g8YYjY</a> — The Niall Boylan Show (@Niall_Boylan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Niall_Boylan/status/1206394630738251776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">16 December 2019</a></blockquote> "Dear #Greta, thank you for supporting us railroad workers in the fight against climate change! We were pleased that you were on the ICE 74 with us on Saturday. And with 100 per cent green electricity," the company posted. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> So, young <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> has apologized for saying something awful. Welcome to life. Forgive her. Hope she thinks twice. Also, I'm doubting these posts are hers alone. Greta has a movement behind her. This all feels sculpted. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Skeptical?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Skeptical</a> Consider this tweet and the reaction. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THNA?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THNA</a> <a href="https://t.co/Bn6BOAglky">pic.twitter.com/Bn6BOAglky</a> — Mike Opelka (@stuntbrain) <a href="https://twitter.com/stuntbrain/status/1206272060433084417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">15 December 2019</a></blockquote> Ms Thunberg later clarified that while she had initially been sitting on the floor, she later got a seat. The teenager also added that while she did sit on the floor, it was not an attack against the railway line. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en-gb"> Our train from Basel was taken out of traffic. So we sat on the floor on 2 different trains. After Göttingen I got a seat.This is no problem of course and I never said it was. Overcrowded trains is a great sign because it means the demand for train travel is high! — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1206203503363985408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">15 December 2019</a></blockquote> "This is no problem of course and I never said it was. Overcrowded trains is a great sign because it means the demand for train travel is high!" she said.

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“Chill Greta!”: Greta Thunberg’s cheeky response to Donald Trump after Twitter mock

US President Donald Trump seemed to have mocked Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg after Time magazine named her 2019’s Person of the Year – only for her to respond with a tongue-in-cheek jibe of her own. The 16-year-old climate change activist was recently announced as the youngest ever recipient of the magazine’s prestigious honour. But Trump wasn’t impressed, taking to Twitter to describe it as “so ridiculous”. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a> — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote> “Greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend,” he said. “Chill Greta, chill!” Hours after the President tweeted that message, Thunberg delivered a cheeky response by changing her Twitter bio to: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend.” <img style="width: 500px; height: 238.9830508474576px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7833395/screen-shot-2019-12-13-at-92048-am.png" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/2007e787dc5f4f94b0a337e7e5448e37" /> The comments are not the first time Trump has mocked the teenager. The President has previously questioned the climate science Thunberg consistently refers to in speeches to world leaders and has challenged every major US regulation aimed at combating climate change. Earlier in the year, he retweeted footage of her UN speech in a big to mock her as he wrote: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!” After that address, he was filmed walking past Thunberg at the summit, completely ignoring her.

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How Greta Thunberg took the news of being named TIME's Person of the Year

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg has been named TIME Magazine’s youngest ever Person of the Year. She acknowledged the honour on her Instagram, saying: “Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.” <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B58C1l8JLox/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B58C1l8JLox/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere. @time</a> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/gretathunberg/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Greta Thunberg</a> (@gretathunberg) on Dec 11, 2019 at 8:04am PST </div> </blockquote> Naturally, the Swedish teen hasn’t let the global honour disrupt the work that she is known for and headed straight to the United Nation’s COP25 climate talks in Madrid. It was here that she demanded once again that world leaders pay attention to the world’s “climate emergency”. Thunberg commanded that global businesses and political leaders have to stop looking for loopholes for their countries’ actions. "A year and a half ago I didn't speak to anyone unless I really had to. But then I found a reason to speak," she told the talks in Madrid, according to MSN. "Since then I've given many speeches and learned that when you talk in public you should start with something personal or emotional to get everyone's attention. "But today I will not do that because then those phrases are all that people focus on. They don't remember the facts - the very reason why I said those things in the first place. "We no longer have time to leave out the science. For about a year, I have been constantly talking about or rapidly declining carbon budgets over and over again. "But since that is still being ignored, I will just keep repeating it." The 16-year-old then took aim at global leaders saying that they need to face up to the ambition that is required to protect the world from climate change. "The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening, when in fact almost nothing is being done, apart from clever accounting and creative PR," she said in the speech. "Finding holistic solutions is what the COP should be all about, but instead it seems to have turned into some kind of opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition," she added.

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"Mad and dangerous": Greta Thunberg cops another round from Jeremy Clarkson

Jeremy Clarkson has made his feelings known about teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg again as he now believes she is “dangerous”. He was speaking to Seven’s Sunrise Europe bureau chief Hugh Whitfeld to promote his TV series The Grand Tour when he made the claims. Initially, Clarkson spoke about the impacts of global warming in Southeast Asia and how it had changed his view. “I don’t think I have ever actually seen the effect of global warming. When you see those houses on stilts in the show … and the water is miles away, that is a remarkable thing,” he said, according to <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/jeremy-clarkson-lashes-out-at-dangerous-greta-thunberg-once-more/news-story/f933f9d235e01981965499b5e5727ac2" target="_blank">news.com.au</a>. “And I know there will be a load of kids go, ‘Ha, you see. There you are’. Fine. Now go to school, learn science and do something about it.” However, his views on Thunberg have not changed. “She is mad and dangerous, and she is causing young children sleepless nights,” Clarkson said. “I think she needs to go back to school and shut up.” This isn’t the first time he has lashed out at Thunberg, as he said that she was a “spoilt brat” after her passionate speech at the United Nations. “We gave you mobile phones and laptops and the internet. We created the social media you use every day and we run the banks that pay for it all,” Clarkson said in a column for <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10022396/greta-thunberg-meltdown-wont-help-world/" target="_blank">The Sun</a>. “So how dare you stand there and lecture us, you spoilt brat.”

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