Sunday Mirror

Cool Greta’s wise words make her brightest star in LA

- Who is in charge of the I’m A Celebrity chequebook? This time they’ve forked out a massive £500,000 to sign up Caitlyn Jenner. Yes, I know who she is – but would she make me want to watch the show? It’s a pity they haven’t signed up the one I would tune i

If you don’t believe in science and man-made global warming, then that’s up to you.

But you do have to belie believe your own eyes.

So sa said the governor of Californ California, Gavin Newsom, when he surveyed the terrifying wind-drive wind-driven wildfires that are currently s sweeping through southern Ca California, destroying homes and livelihood­s and causing mass evacuation­s. evacu

And there in the middle of it all is little Greta T Thunberg, the child activist who has done more to raise awareness t than many politician­s and campai campaigner­s.

She’s in th the United States in the latest phase of her mission to change the world. Thousands of kids skipped school to see her and hear her spe speak.

“We can see s the wildfires happening right r around the corner,” Greta Gre said outside City Hall, just mi miles from a blaze.

“Right no now we are living in the beginning o of a climate and ecological b breakdown, and we cannot look away from this crisis any more.”

Los Ange Angeles is used to seeing stars but th this tiny girl from Sweden is eclipsing t them all. Leonardo DiCaprio wa was at the rally too, but all eyes were o on Greta.

She seem seems remarkably cool and calm and ut utterly unfazed by her own celebri celebrity, even refusing an award for he her work.

I wonder how long she can last before this m mean, cynical old world finally gets its claws into her and turns her into in a politician...

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