The 16-year-old activist is set to interview Sir David Attenborough, an English broadcaster and natural historian, as part of a radio special.
Greta Thunberg has been named one of the guest editors of BBC Radio 4 and she will be interviewing national treasure Sir David Attenborough about the ‘ongoing climate crisis.’
“We’ll be reporting about the scale of the ongoing climate crisis and I’ll be talking to David Attenborough for the first time,” Thunberg said on Twitter.
Her announcement comes only a few weeks after she was named TIME’s Person Of The Year 2019.
Edward Felsenthal, the editor-in-chief of Time, explained why the teen had been named the Person of the Year, writing: “When she first heard about global warming as an eight-year-old, Thunberg says she thought, ‘That can’t be happening, because if that were happening, then the politicians would be taking care of it’.
“That they weren’t is precisely what motivated her to act, as it has youth the world over who are forcing us to confront the peril of our own inaction, from the student-led protests on the streets of Santiago, Chile, to the young democracy activists fighting for rights and representation in Hong Kong to the high schoolers from Parkland, Fla., whose march against gun violence Thunberg cites as an inspiration for her climate strikes.”
The teen activist has become the youngest person ever named Person of the Year by TIME.
“Thunberg demands action, and though far too many key measures are still moving in the wrong direction, there are nascent signs that action is coming,” Felsenthal added.
“Corporate commitments to sustainable growth and net-zero emissions are on the rise. More than 60 countries have pledged to have a net carbon footprint of zero by 2050. American primary voters, especially in states beset by wildfires and flooding, are suddenly giving presidential candidates an earful on climate change.
“In Austria’s September elections, the Green Party more than tripled its support at the expense of the Social Democrats, a development a leader of the Social Democrats attributed to Thunberg – just before he resigned.
“Even as China burns half the world’s coal, it too is changing. It’s now home to roughly 45 percent of the electric cars and 99 percent of the electric buses in the world.”
Thunberg also weighed into the bushfire crisis occurring in many parts of Australia. She wrote on Twitter: “Not even catastrophes like these seem to bring any political action. How is this possible?
“Because we still fail to make the connection between the climate crisis and increased extreme weather events and nature disasters like the #AustraliaFires. That’s what has to change. Now.”
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