Thunberg: I don't want to go into politics

Climate activistic Greta Thunberg has said she volition not prosecute a vocation successful authorities - due to the fact that it is excessively "toxic".

The Swedish teen became a household sanction successful 2018, aft she skipped schoolhouse and inspired an planetary question to combat clime change.

Now 19, she says the indispensable changes "will lone travel if there's capable nationalist unit from the extracurricular - and that is thing that we create".

And she ne'er intended to go the look of a planetary movement.

"It's excessively overmuch responsibility," Ms Thunberg said. Sometimes I tin snap. I say, 'If you deliberation that each the anticipation successful the satellite rests connected burned-out teenagers' shoulders, I mean, that's not precise good.'''

The 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention connected Climate Change (Cop27), is successful Egypt, connected 6-18 November - but Ms Thunberg volition beryllium absent.

"I'm not needed there," she said. "There volition beryllium different radical who volition attend, from the astir affected areas. And I deliberation that their dependable determination is much important."

Ms Thunberg told BBC News media exertion Amol Rajan she remained unaffected by maltreatment connected societal media but said: "What I americium astir bothered astir is erstwhile radical prevarication astir maine and spread, like, conspiracy theories - due to the fact that I can't lie, truthful erstwhile different radical prevarication astir me, it's like, 'No - don't.'''

Targeted connected Twitter by respective satellite leaders, including Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, she has responded usually by changing her Twitter profile.

"I conscionable deliberation it's genuinely funny," she said. "I mean, the astir almighty radical successful the satellite consciousness intimidated by teenagers. That is funny. It says much astir them than it does astir me."

Ms Thunberg's astir caller task has been creating and curating a publication of essays by dozens of experts, to supply a toolkit for those acrophobic astir clime change.

Amol Rajan Interviews Greta Thunberg is connected BBC2, astatine 19:00 BST, connected Tuesday, 18 October, and BBC iPlayer.