"Forget saving the planet – we need to save Greta!"

In his op-ed piece entitled "Save Greta", he pointed out that any adult that cheered Greta Thunberg's speech in the United Nations should be ashamed of themselves.
"Her emotional rant was a deeply disturbing spectacle. It revealed a young woman, a girl, in essence, who is in the grip of terror, of a morbid, debilitating belief that life as we know it is coming to an end. You could not have asked for firmer proof that the green ideology is seriously screwing up the next generation by pumping them with fear and panic and a deranged belief that the end of the world is nigh. It isn't the planet that needs saving - it's Greta. She needs to be saved from the death cult of eco-alarmism", O'Neill underlines in his article.
Editor of British internet-portal stressed that "it was a truly sad sight", adding that Greta's tears were understandable, given that she is convinced that life on Earth is being "suffocated and murdered by greedy, marauding mankind".
"With each nightmarish word, with each unhinged dystopian prediction of doom, her voice wobbled and her emotions span out of control. It was a public meltdown. And of course the politicians applauded it - perversely, they love nothing more than being told how awful they are", O'Neill wrote.
Author asks himself "who did this to Greta?"
"Who turned a bright and curious 16-year-old schoolgirl into a prophet of horror, into a young woman who admits to feeling terror and who believes the Earth is on fire? Adults did. The green-infused educational, political and cultural elites did. The people who have been feeding kids a narrative of eco-fear for years did this. Their secular Armageddonism, their wilful exaggeration of every problem mankind faces, their marshalling of the politics of fear to try to...