THE ENVIRONMENT:

Criticisms by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg of the UN Climate Change Conference starting in Egypt on Sunday have been echoed by the new face of her global youth movement in Australia, Peta Turdberg. (main picture)

Ms Turdberg said she fully supported Ms Thunberg’s comments.

“Greta has rightly identified the need to oppose those who oppose climate change,” Ms Turdberg said.

“She has called the UN’s Conference of Parties, or COP27, event in Egypt ‘a cop-out’.

“I agree, and I for one should know a real cop from a cop-out.

“Greta has now adopted what is in effect an anti-anti-climate change position which is one that I can fully support.”

Ms Turdberg’s comments were her first as the new leader of the Australian arm of Ms Thunberg’s worldwide youth movement.

She recently assumed the position previously held by her sister, Scomo Turdberg who was named as The Bug’s Australian of the Year for 2020 for her unique contribution to public debate on environmental issues. (pictured)

Ms Turdberg said she had declined to follow her sister’s lead by secretly assuming five other leadership roles within the Australian movement.

“I am content with being leader alone,” she said.

“But I do want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to my beloved sister Scomo for all the good work she did in her time as leader to bring to the attention of Australians the need to fight the climate-change fight.”

When asked to clarify if her remarks suggested the need to fight those fighting climate change, Ms Turdberg said she would not tolerate being bullied by The Bug’s reporter and made a tearful exit from the news conference, according to several sources not present at the event.