Daniel Wolfram
The famous UK TV star has parked his cars in his garage for a tractor. He now blames a young Swede for the crazy summer.
Usually, when blame is assigned as to why climate change has been so severe over the last decade, it falls on industrialization and human activity.
When talking about global warming and human activity, the blame falls on billions of people in the Western world.
However, a famous TV host has put the blame solely on a young Swedish climate activist.
A wild theory
Former Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson took to the stage at his Oxfordshire pub on September 4 as the 66-year-old hosted thousands of guests during the Hawkstone Harvest Festival.
Clarkson delivered a speech with sarcastic undertones. He quickly turned to global climate patterns and their relation to farmers. Then came a jab at a famous activist.
“I think the reason the weather’s gone wrong over the last two years is that Greta Thunberg is now more bothered about Palestine than she is about global warming,” joked Mr Clarkson, according to the agricultural news outlet South West Farmer.
Thunberg, now 23, gained global recognition in 2018 with her school strikes in Sweden and has since become the face of modern climate activism.
Downplaying the weather
Despite the joke, Clarkson downplayed climate change and the effects of this past summer when speaking to local farmers.
“That’s why we’ve got this terrible problem, but I actually genuinely believe next year will be a normal summer,” he added.
He doubled down on his prediction: “I’m going to bet you if there’s any farmers out there, I reckon [it’ll be normal].”
“The average farmer age is around 65 or 66 these days? So we all remember 1976, and if you think back, 1977 was very nearly as hot,” Clarkson remarked.
From cars to farms
“We had two really hot years one after the other then, and then 1978 was shocking. We’ve just had two really hot years. So I’m just saying,” Clarkson ended his remarks with these words.
Clarkson knows a thing or two about farm life. After trading supercars for tractors, he opened Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.
His agricultural journey can be seen in the Amazon Prime series Clarkson’s Farm. Five seasons are already in the books, with season six currently filming.
