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Björk has paid tribute to teenage environmental activist Greta Thunberg. The Icelandic star’s mesmerising Cornucopia show in London last month featured a touching video message from Thunberg. “She is extraordinary! I can’t believe she recorded this message for me back in April,” explained Björk. “Strangely, in the US legal system, where the most resistance to the idea of global warming is, the only angle that could survive through the whole bureaucracy is children suing the government for having robbed them of their future. With Greta, this point of view got a voice, a person. Obviously I also think she is outrageously strong and incorruptible.”
Björk is a keen activist herself: “I think that there is a lot we have to do and change. It is not too late, but we have to totally switch lifestyles. We have done that so many times before. London banned coal and you guys could see the sky again.”
Her desire to be green stretches to recording studios, which she plans to avoid from now on. “I hate normal music studios for example – no windows, everything brown and foamy,” she told the Evening Standard. “How can we bring the recording process to the mountain? I guess I am just extremely excited to leave the industrial age. The weight of iron machines and rock‘n’roll is too much for me sometimes.”
• Read our review of Björk’s Cornucopia show at the O2 Arena in London on page 94
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