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I'm Greta Thunberg.

I'm a climate activist, and this is my guest edit of the Today program.

Here's me talking to Michelle Hussein about why climate matters to me

and should matter to everyone.

It's been a very strange year.

I mean, it was something no one could have predicted.

In the beginning I was always very surprised when more things started to happen.

But then I just stopped taking it in, so I haven't, it's like I haven't really grasped what's happened during this last year

because it's just too much.

But it's been a very, very strange year.

Do you feel that your message is getting somewhere?

I feel definitely I am being listened to and we climate activists are being listened to.

But that doesn't mean that what we are saying is translated

into action. And the science is still being ignored mostly.

Ignored by governments?

I mean, by pretty much by the people in power, in politics, in finance, media, because

there's a huge lack of awareness among people in general at this, that's my experience,

traveling around to all these different places. But I mean mean it's changing, it's slowly changing,

but still it's being left out.

Even though in some countries, including the UK,

we now have a law for the country to be net zero carbon emissions by 2050,

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