Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg's father says their family has turned vegan and stopped flying on planes to save his daughter, not the planet.
Two titan climate campaigners, Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough, have joined forces to push politicians and businesses to step up action on climate change after a year in which schoolchildren took to the world's streets in protest.
Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg started the school strike for climate change movement.Attenborough - famous for his TV series showing the impact of environmental degradation on flora and fauna - said he had flagged the need for changes to political structures and daily lives two decades ago but "no one took a blind bit of notice".Thunberg urged people to "read up" about climate science and what is being done - or not - to tackle the problem.
Attenborough said it was depressing when governments in the US, Brazil or Australia indicated they were not taking any notice of what should be done."It needs a real electric shock - such as you have produced socially - to bring them to their senses, and let's hope that shock will go on," Attenborough told Thunberg on the Today show.
He said Greta did not eat for three months, nor speak to people outside her family at one stage, but becoming a climate activist had enabled her to recover and become a happy teenager who "dances around" and "laughs a lot".
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