Greta Thunberg: 'They see us as a threat because we're having an impact'

OPEC declared Thunberg and her young climate activists to be the “greatest threat” to the fossil fuel industry. Thunberg tweeted them her thanks. “Our biggest compliment yet.” Hers is a voice unlike the world’s usual power-cacophony: clean, simple, inclusive, refusing to beguile. She talks ethics to politics without flinching. She cuts through the media white noise and political rabble-rousing to get to the essentials. This is a communal voice and Thunberg is its lightning conductor: when you hear her speak or you read her speeches you know you’re in the presence of the opposite of cynicism – of a spirit, that rebuffs cynicism and knows that the way we act, every single one of us, has transformatory impact and consequence. “The real power belongs to the people.”