Greta Thunberg: Meeting David Attenborough was 'indescribable'
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg says meeting with fellow campaigner Sir David Attenborough was "indescribable."
He features in the 18-year-old's new BBC documentary on climate change, A Year to Change the World.
Speaking to Greg James on the Radio 1 Breakfast show, Greta said Sir David was the kind of person everyone looked up to.
"Whatever he says you agree with it basically. I have so much respect for him," she said.
"He's done so much in his life, he has so many stories to share."
The documentary shows how the Swedish teen became a household name after skipping school for her one-person climate strikes.
Her action has gone on to inspire other young people across the world to carry out similar protests.
She said the fact Sir David is older made a huge difference.
"Maybe the thing that I admire most with him is that even though he may be a certain age, he still is keeping his mind very open and he has started speaking up.
"He has really started to speak up more than he did before and I think that's really admirable and that's something that we should all strive to be like."
Greta has not been shy in her campaigning - she has hit out at world leaders for not doing enough to tackle rising temperatures.
In 2019 she accused governments of 'empty words' at a climate change meeting in New York and was famously captured glaring at President Trump who had pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement.
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