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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.”