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Aging Megastar Deeply Threatened By Teenage Climate Activist
Aging Megastar Deeply Threatened By Teenage Climate Activist-October 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:50

Jeremy Clarkson (background) and Greta Thunberg (bottom right).

Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has been full of bad takes over the years, from to . But he’s still at it, and the newest target of his annoyance is Greta Thunberg—an “idiot” teenage climate activist who has, Clarkson added, “killed the car show.”

That’s it, everyone. We’ve figured it out.

End the global surveys. Stop the equations. Give the overheating calculators and endless spreadsheets a break. We have the answer: An adolescent has singlehandedly killed the concept of the car show, and the car itself, both of which have been around since long before she was born and still exist today.

This enlightening discovery is all thanks to Clarkson, who , who told the that Thunberg, 16, is a big reason why young people hate cars:

Jeremy, 59, ranted: “Everyone I know under 25 isn’t the slightest bit interested in cars — has killed the car show.

“They’re taught at school, before they say ‘Mummy and Daddy’, that cars are evil, and it’s in their heads.”

Clarkson went on to say global warming exists, but that Thunberg, who is trying to make that point clear to everyone, is an idiot. (?) (Who knows.) (Anyone?)

From the Sun:

But Jeremy adds: “ — and we’ve not been idiotic, it’s very definitely a thing. You can change your mind.

“Only an idiot doesn’t change their mind when faced with irrefutable evidence. The question is, what to do about it? That’s a more interesting debate than what is happening.”

But turning to Greta again, he says: “She’s an idiot. Going round saying we’re all going to die, that’s not going to solve anything, my dear.”

Clarkson has regularly reminded the world how much he despises Thunberg, who is 43 years younger than he is and doing much more than the rest of us probably were at 16.

He wrote for the Sun this year after on the devastating effects of climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City, calling it a “full-on adolescent meltdown” and saying she should go to her room until she’s calmed down. Clarkson’s column also had a healthy dose of sexism, because roasting a teenager on a large platform is no good without it.

In Clarkson’s world, Thunberg is now to blame for the Youths™ falling out of love with cars, even though this has been a talking point and tossing blame around for an entire cultural shift is about as irresponsible as you can get. Clarkson also has no reason to say anyone is “kill[ing] the car show,” as the man managed to while on a car show, from said car show, and have created for him because he’s such a big name. That post-punch car show on Amazon Prime, The Grand Tour, is still going strong, with a report showing it was one of the most successful Amazon shows in 2017 as far as bringing new subscribers in. It is also making the hosts, including Clarkson, .

But go off, Jeremy. It seems to make you feel better.

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