Former 'Top Gear' host Jeremy Clarkson blames 'idiot' Greta Thunberg for making young people hate cars: 'She has killed the car show'
Jeremy Clarkson has said that Greta Thunberg is one of the main reasons young people today "hate cars".
The 59-year-old 'Grand Tour' host accused the Swedish eco-warrior of "killing the car show" and putting youngsters off traditional, fossil-fuel-powered vehicles.
According to Clarkson, the 16-year-old is "an idiot" for claiming "we're all going to die."
"Everyone I know under 25 isn't the slightest bit interested in cars—Greta Thunberg has killed the car show," Clarkson told The Sun. "They're taught at school—before they say 'mummy' and 'daddy'—that cars are evil, and it's in their heads."
However, the host and presenter recently admitted that global warming was "very definitely a thing."
In next month's episode titled 'The Grand Tour Presents: Seamen,' Clarkson will be joined by lifelong friends and co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May as they make a 500-mile trip from Cambodia to Vietnam.
While the trio have been working together for more than 20 years, this is reportedly the first time they are taking climate change seriously.
"It’s the first time that we’ve ever admitted to there being global warming," Clarkson admitted while writing about the program in The Sunday Times.
Clarkson has, for the longest time, been a harsh critic of the green movement. He recently called Thunberg a "spoilt brat" after her impassioned speech at the UN, where she blamed world leaders for not doing enough to fix the planet's warming climate.
"I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us for hope. How dare you," the Swedish activist said in her speech at the Climate Action Summit 2019 in New York. "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words."
"How dare you sail to America on a carbon fiber yacht that you didn’t build which cost £15million, that you didn’t earn, and which has a back-up diesel engine that you didn’t mention," Clarkson responded in The Sun.
"We gave you mobile phones and laptops and the internet. We created the social media you use every day and we run the banks that pay for it all. So how dare you stand there and lecture us, you spoilt brat," he had said.