Music to their ears: Greta’s eco speech at Glastonbury
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg made a surprise appearance at Glastonbury yesterday as she warned festivalgoers about an ecological emergency.
She appeared on the main Pyramid Stage to deliver a speech in which she criticised world leaders for creating “loopholes” and “benefited the destructive industries”.
Thunberg, 19, who was greeted like a rock when she arrived at the G20 climate summit in Glasgow last year, said: “The forces of greed and profit and planetary destructions are so powerful that our fight for the natural world is limited to a desperate struggle to avoid a total natural
catastrophe.
“We should be fighting for people and for nature, but instead we are fighting against those who are set on destroying it. Today our political leaders are allowed to say one thing then do the exact opposite.”
Around 200,000 music fans flocked to Worthy Farm in Somerset for the first Glastonbury festival in three years, many to see last night’s headliner Sir Paul Mccartney.
Sir Paul became Glastonbury’s oldest solo headliner a week after he celebrated his 80th birthday and more than 60 years of making music with a setlist packed with his greatest hits.