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Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, 61, has fumed over Greta Thunberg’s protests at COP26. The star was less than impressed that the Swedish activist, 18, was given a platform by BBC journalists at the climate summit, claiming they “fawned like they were soap stars being introduced to the Queen”.
He added in his latest column: “They didn’t call the annoying little bucket of ego, ‘Your majesty’, but you could see they were thinking it.”
Jeremy went on to criticise Greta’s “abusive” words at a rally in Glasgow.
He penned: “I simply don’t get the Thunberg phenomenon.
“She has no knowledge of how the world works, no manners and no letters after her name because instead of going to school, she’s been busy sailing round the world so she can be mardy and abusive to grown-ups.
“What she needs is a smacked bottom.”
Despite not being Greta’s biggest fan, Jeremy acknowledged that one of her ideas from the summit “struck a chord”.
Jeremy agreed with Greta’s point that the COP26 politicians’ words weren’t as relevant “because the people outside knew what had to be done and could just get on and do it”.
He continued to The Sunday Times: “So here’s a tip, Greta: lecturing me on what needs to be done is pointless.
“It’d be like standing in my bedroom every morning ordering me to wear clothes. I know already.
“What you should be doing instead is cycling to countries where people are perhaps less well aware of what should be done. China for example.
“That I’d like to see. Greta standing outside Zhongnanhai with her parka and her Glastonbury backpack and her microphone, lecturing the leaders about their policies on coal and trees and so on.”
China’s president, Xi Jinping, didn’t turn up to the COP26 UN climate summit.
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Jeremy’s column comes after Greta described the UN climate change summit as a “two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah” to “maintain business as usual” and “create loopholes to benefit themselves”.
She added: “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place.”
Greta continued: “We need immediate drastic annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen.
“The people in power can continue to live in their bubble filled with their fantasies, like eternal growth on a finite planet and technological solutions that will suddenly appear seemingly out of nowhere and will erase all of these crises just like that.
“All this while the world is literally burning, on fire, and while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.”
Jeremy hasn’t shied away from being vocal about his dislike of Greta.
The star was promoting Amazon Prime Video’s The Grand Tour when he slammed Greta in 2019.
Speaking on Australian TV show Sunrise, Jeremy said: “She’s mad and she’s dangerous and she’s causing young children sleepless nights with her idiocy.
“No, I think she needs to go back to school and shut up.”
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