Greta Thunberg in Davos, Switzerland

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Would you say you're a child actor? Are you a child actor or an expert? How would you describe yourself? As you'll event here for Rebel News, I'm standing outside the CNBC studio, the same one where the vice president threatened to clock our friend Avi Amini. Of course, it's where all the VVIPs pop by to give their propaganda message, dutifully transcribed by the media party here. How dare you? It is the most important person in the world. According to the World Economic Forum, it is young Greta Tunberg. So we'll see if we can catch a minute of the young lady's time. Greta, how many times did you rehearse your arrest at the German coal mine? How many times did you rehearse it because it looked staged? Is it true? How many times did you rehearse your arrest? Greta, how many times did you film your arrest and why was it staged that way? Greta, considering you not spent much time in school, how do you know so much about climate change? Wait a minute, maybe you want to talk to a real German with what did you talk to you? You're in the Netherlands, you've got to sit down and have a rest. Did you? Greta, as a real journalist, is climate change as really your arrest? How far are you willing to go? You're willing to break the law? Will you renounce violence? Will you renounce violence, Greta? Or do you support Antifa? You've worn an antifa shirt before. Are you in favor of Antifa? Greta, how did you get here today? What was your climate footprint in traveling here? What's your plan when you're here? Five. What? Do we have a Friday's for future tomorrow? Greta, how do you feel about discussing climate change with the delegates here when nearly all of them take private jets? Do you think at least the fact these delegates take private jets is a bad thing against what you believe in? All of this could be done via Zoom, so surely, surely you should be encouraging all the delegates here, especially the likes of US Special Envoy John Kerry for climate change. Surely you should be saying to these people, you should be doing this via Zoom with a much smaller carbon footprint, surely? Greta, avoid my questions if climate changes are common. What do you think about the problem? Well, I think that says enough. Greta, energy prices in Europe have never been higher. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Are you happy that natural gas is so expensive so people can't afford it or do you think that's bad? Greta, it's getting quite cold in Davos. When can I expect some global warming? Oh, it's awesome. Greta, would you say you're a child actor? Are you a child actor or an expert? How would you describe yourself? Greta, are there any climate actions planned while you're here with older activists? Greta, are you used to gentler questions or do you ever talk to people who disagree with you? Greta, who was filming your arrest in Germany? Because it looked like you did that in several takes, didn't you? You were posing with the police. He's answering for you. He's answering for you. He said you had an agency. What? Sometimes I wish I had one. It would be much simpler than. Well, who was filming you then? I don't know media. You don't know who was filming you in Germany? He said he knows. He says it was an agency. Do you normally have reporters defending you? It's very likely that the German police and our WFOSLFU company would stage the arrest. How many times did you were arrested? Because you posed for several times, didn't you? You were going to be right now. Sure. What is your main message to the people who are at the World Economic Forum? What do you want to, for a message you want to portray right through? Well, of course, it depends on who you are. Some people are more responsible for this crisis than others. Certainly. Careful because here there are the cars. How can we never protest Saudi Arabia or Russia? You only protest Western energy. Why have you never criticized Vladimir Putin or OPEC? I have never done that. Never. What do you do now? Well, you condemn OPEC energy? Greta, can you condemn every single delegate that has come here on a private jet? Surely that's something you should condemn. You can do it too? I could. But you're the one who really who has such a strong stance against climate change. And if it's true, I commend your efforts. But could you condemn them taking private jets to these meetings? Why won't you condemn private jets? Have you ever been on a private jet even once? I own 100 private jets. Have you been on how about once? Have you ever been on a private jet? All the time. Yes. I wonder why you won't answer me in a straight answer. Greta, do you have any meetings with any people who are here? Any politicians, any high business people as you're here? Depends on how you define that. Well, can you tell us who you're having talks to? No. Why are you having secret meetings? Greta, do you think that's endeavors, the big companies here? Are really interesting by climate change. Well, I guess we have to do is see what they do. Let's get back to those private meetings. Why are you having private meetings? Secret meetings. Who are they having secret meetings with? You believe them? It's pretty speeches, isn't it? You do. Come on. I'm fighting you. Stop it. I'm not part of it. Hey, what are you doing? When it comes to solving things like climate change and heading in a different direction, do you agree with criminal damage caused by groups such as just oil in order to get the climate message across? Do you think it is justified? Are they called just oil? That would not be a very good name for it. So just stop oil. Greta, this is your opportunity right here. It seems to be taking it very seriously. Sorry? This is your opportunity to stop and tell us what you care about, what you're fighting against. You seem to be joining the establishment, not fighting them anymore. Are you not one of them? One of who? What are the people on the private jets and the helicopters flying in here to tell us how to live our lives? Yes, because I have many private jets of my own. Yes. It's okay. I want to move here. The point being you have to condemn all of them equally otherwise it's hypocrisy, right? No. I don't see how that's funny. I don't get anything seriously, so just I laugh all the time so don't take it personally. Greta, where did you learn everything you know about things like climate change? Where did you learn all that? Yeah, that's a good question. I wish I knew. So if you wish you knew how do you know so much, surely if you know so much you wouldn't know where you learned all this from, surely. Who said that I know so much? Well, because you are deemed as an expert worldwide when it comes to climate change, you speak on on global stages when it comes to climate change and ultimately some of the things you say lead global policy. If that was the case then the world would look completely different, I assure you. What would you like to do to make the world look completely different? That's a fair question, surely. First I would like to eat lunch maybe. Are you going to be eating bugs to save the planet for this lunch? I think I'm going to take. I'll see. Greta, do you make an opportunity to listen to different voices and opinions that differ from your own? You try and take challenge on board when it comes to climate. If you want to end fossil fuels how did you get to Davos today? I came yesterday, I didn't get to do. How did you travel here? Uh, several trains. Several trains or planes? I took a private jet of course. I took a private jet. Yes. I mean you laugh about this but surely if it's such a big issue it surely no laughing matter. This is an opportunity for you to try and get people who don't agree with your message to try and see it from your side of the view and to maybe change their ways. Surely? Yeah, I wish I could tell that to myself sometimes to take things more seriously but you know I'm just a young person. I tend to laugh at most things. Do you regret encouraging young people to miss school? No. Does anyone have any idea where we are? Oh, I tell us where you want to go and that's not your purpose. Yes. Do you want to get the best one? Do you want to get all the new ones? Greta, who operates your Twitter account for you? Who operates your Twitter account? Oh, that's me. That's why I'm so bad. Are you the only one who does it or do other people help you? No, unfortunately I'm the only one. So no one else would... No one else would... And all your social media, do you write it or just a PR agency write it? It would be much easier if I had a PR agency that would write everything to be honest. I think you laugh when you're nervous, is that right? Then I would be nervous all the time. Greta, how do you deal with all of this? All people caring about what you have to say. Listening what you have to say. Pretty good. Pretty big voice. How do you deal with all of that? Pressure. I don't know, it's a bit weird that people seem to care but I think about things so much. For you, love it, don't you? You always put yourself out in the public. So you're not a private person, you love it. You're a celebrity. Are you a celebrity or a child actor? How would you describe yourself? Who do you count as your chief advisors? See that? You're doing it. You're doing it. You're doing it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shell, Exxon, yeah. It's quite something that the media are answering the questions for you. That's amazing. We're just joking. We're asking the same questions that we get bored. You know? Yeah. Not only, I guess. Greta, who would you say is the biggest threat to climate change, whether that's one person, an organisation or a country? Me. And why would you say you're the biggest threat to climate change? To the world going in a disastrous trajectory towards the world being damaged through climate change. Who do you think is the worst culprit? Me. Why you? Is it your 100-deprived jets? Yes. Where do you stand on China and their climate carbon footprint? Yeah, as a climate activist, of course, you love when people limit carbon dioxide. Yeah, that's really our thing. I mean, Greta, you're not taking this very seriously. This seems to be a big issue to you, unless it's just simply a job in which you case line your pockets with lots of money. Surely you want to actually have an adult opinion on the likes of China, surely. I have opinions about a lot of things, yes. Could you share your opinion on China with us? Obviously, I love it when people limit carbon dioxide. Every time a Western government implements a net zero policy, it's common-footbit of suffering, especially in a cost of living crisis. Do you have anything to say on that? Yeah, it's horrible that people are being affected by different things like some political climate crisis, and so people are being displaced and losing their lives. It's horrible. But they can't afford to eat, or eat their homes. Because of the net zero policies. Yeah, that's definitely why we're experiencing the cost of living crisis, yes. I agree. Thank you. You've been here before. You've had a big speech. It made a proper impact. You think it did anything, did it? Did anything change? Well, we can't, we can't only see where we are now. The global emissions of the United States are still increasing. But we are a movement. There's a growing. We are a movement, yes. Of course. But is the movement not turning people off away from your cause? Sorry? Is the movement not turning people away from your cause? The tactics that are being employed? I have a sense of hope. Do you agree with all the radical tactics people are taking in your name? I think they'll know I'm taking action in my name is me. I hope. You are the leader of this movement. I hope not. Therefore, would you condemn people taking radical action and prefer democracy instead? Would you encourage people to take democratic action rather than radical action? Greta, can you condemn everyone who has caused criminal damage in terms of to try and get the point across to fight climate change? I think there wasn't many people in that country. Are you? Russia and China are building more coal-fired power stations. Why should those of us in the West suffer because of net zero when they are not doing their part? Greta, you want students to stay on stage and say how dare you passionately and emotionally because people weren't doing it for now. You don't seem to be taking it seriously. Why the sudden change? I don't know. If you could say one thing to people who oppose you to convince them, what would that be? So weird. If you say one thing to people who oppose you to convince them of your arguments, what would it be? If you could oppose it to people who oppose you to say anything. I wouldn't say anything. But surely if you cared about climate change that much, you would surely say something to try and get them to want to do something else about the way we are going in terms of climate change. Thank you. This has been a pleasure. We're going to leave now. We would appreciate if you didn't follow. Thank you. Thanks, Greta. Thank you. Well, there you have it. Greta Tunberg walking and talking for quite a while with several Rebel News journalists and several mainstream media journalists who sometimes even answered questions for her. They knew the script so well. I think the thing I was struck by and come here. There's a journalist saying we were just correcting you, dude. That tells you about the kind of media that are normally covering Davos. They're narrative enforcers. They're conformists. And they don't ask skeptical questions. But in the case of Greta Tunberg, what we're so striking was as my colleague, Callum Smiles pointed out, this is the young woman who stood at the United Nations and said, how dare you? How dare you and mustard her fury? But when she was asked question after question, and I mean legitimate good faith questions, she giggled, she laughed and in some cases she said absurd things like I have 100 private jets or I like coal. And none of it made sense to me other than my realization of who she is, where she's from, what her parents are like, and that she really is a child actor. I think we just learned everything there was to learn about Greta. And it's, and I'm so glad we caught it because we were waiting about two hours in the bloody cold for that. So thank you, Callum. Thanks to our hardy cameraman who are freezing. Benji, great work. Thank you very much, Ed, for being right on the spot. And what a pleasure to have Calvin with us to bring another point of view. Calvin, a very thoughtful presenter at GB News, what a pleasure to have him here. Another very interesting day here at Davos. And it pays off to wait for these VVIP's last point. You'll remember there was an enormous crowd out front. There was probably 50 people at the height. And Greta, it was simply taking her time to come out. I have not seen 50 people muster for John Kerry, the former Secretary of State. I have not seen 50 people muster for Tony Blair, the former British PM. Greta is their prophet and she has been insulated from scrutiny. Well, we're called Rebel News for a reason because we ask questions that other people don't like. Callum, congratulations. Calvin and the rest of our team. Another great day at Davos to see all our footage from all our different interviews and all our different scrums go to w-e-f-reports.com. 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