A conversation with Greta
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The world’s most famous climate activist has just turned 18 and is as uncompromising as ever.
In an extended interview, Justin Rowlatt asks Greta Thunberg how she intends to continue campaigning, now that she is back in school and living under lockdown at her family home in Stockholm.
Before the pandemic, the Swedish environmentalist had spent several months travelling around America in an electric vehicle lent to her by Arnold Schwarzenegger. A TV documentary crew shadowed her as she visited scientists, entrepreneurs and victims of wild fires, while also attending climate conferences and protesting.
She tells us what she learned, and why she believes the climate emergency is more dire than ever before.
Producer: Laurence Knight
(Picture: Greta Thunberg at home in a video conference with Justin Rowlatt)
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| 0:00.0 | From the BBC World Service. |
| 0:02.9 | These attackers have no fear. |
| 0:04.5 | They would have killed me had they found out. |
| 0:06.4 | It was really intense. |
| 0:08.4 | I just saw the entire financial markets grinding to a halt. |
| 0:12.5 | This is what they've stolen. |
| 0:14.0 | So many millions of dollars. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, it's got to be North Korea. |
| 0:16.3 | There was chaos. |
| 0:17.2 | What do you mean they've disappeared? |
| 0:18.3 | It was almost like a perfect crime. |
| 0:19.8 | Where did they get them on? |
| 0:20.8 | How in the world did this happen? The Lazarus Heist from the BBC World Service coming soon. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily. I'm Justin Rowlatt and in today's, I speak to the world's most famous environmental |
| 0:39.1 | activist. One thing you can do is to talk to your parents and talk to the adults around you |
| 0:43.6 | and try to influence them. That's how I got started. You can start to pick up litter outside. |
| 0:48.6 | You can start to attend marches. Greta Thunberg has only just turned 18, and yet in the last |
| 0:53.7 | two and a half years, she has set the debate around the climate crisis alight. |
| 0:59.0 | Every fraction of a degree, every choice, every day and every year matters, but we need to act now. |
| 1:05.0 | A conversation with Greta on Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:10.0 | People's Greta on Business Daily on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:20.7 | People say a lot of things about me. People listen when I talk. But I don't want you to listen to me. I want you to listen to the science. |
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