Jordan Peterson Explains Why Climate Activists Like Greta Thunberg May Be Wrong These days, climate change is being blamed for various ‘extreme weather events’ – from storms, to hurricanes, and forest fires. As a result, an endless stream of wild, alarmist claims are being made in the mainstream media every day attributing the cause-and-effect of the man-made global warming theory to almost anything. Some climate activists have taken it further, claiming that man-made CO2 has already triggered the mass extinction of humanity. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said at a UN panel in 2019: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”