Greta Thunberg has said in an audience that she does not want to go into politics , calling it too " toxic " . In an interview with the BBC , the big climate crisis activist also account being seen as the cheek of a global movement as " too much responsibility " for a teenager to take on .
Thunberg isno stranger to vitriolaimed in her direction . She has been dependent to abuse from both anonymous Internet trolls and prominent ( often controversial , occasionally presidential ) media form . She ’s been subject to jokes about her appearance , her saving of lecture in a second language , and evenlikened to a nazi because she braids her hair , often when she was still only a 15 or 16 - class - old child .
Thunberg told theBBC in a recent interviewthat she found being targeted by world leadership on Twitter " genuinely fishy " .
" I entail , the most powerful people in the mankind feel restrain by teenagers , " she order . " That is peculiar . It sound out more about them than it does about me . "
She has said similar opinion in the past tense , while also test to take focal point away from herself as the face of the strike for mood move .
" It seems they will get across every possible line to forfend the focus , since they are so desperate not to talk about the climate and ecological crisis . Being different is not an malady and the current , best uncommitted science is not opinion – it ’s facts , " shewrote on Twitterafter one peculiarly virulent calendar week .
Thunberg has continuously essay to move the nidus herschool run into movementbrought on her to the climate crisis she was , and still is , protest . The coming COP27 climate conference in Egypt next month will not see her in attendance .
" I ’m not needed there , " she told the BBC . " There will be other hoi polloi who will attend , from the most affected areas . And I think that their voice there is more important . "
In term of the unfolding clime crisis , Thunberg differentiate the BBC that she continues to believe that " overall we are still bucket along in the damage direction"and that time is run out .
" We do n’t have fourth dimension for these small steps in the right centering . We do n’t have time to reach net zero by 2050 , " she say in the 45 - minute interview , available to UK watcher onBBC iPlayer .
" When it come to the climate crisis moving tardily is the same thing as lose . We ca n’t really compromise with the Torah of physics , either we go on as a civilization or we do n’t . "
