WASHINGTON, DC. (THECOUNT) — Naomi Seibt, a vlogger and climate change skeptic, has taken to YouTube calling herself the “Anti-Greta,” while challenging environmental activist and fellow teen, Greta Thunberg’s perceived climate “alarmism.”
Seibt, 19, who is sponsored by The Heartland Institute, is set to take to the stage at CPAC this week. The institute is a national organization that supports fracking.
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Thunberg has become one of the most influential teenagers on Earth. She’s been named TIME Person of the Year for 2019, nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, and her tireless campaigning against climate change shows no sign of halting, but now it seems as though Greta has a nemesis to contend with,” wrote YT on Tuesday morning.
Seibt, who bills herself as a “clear and obvious counterpart” to Thunberg, said the following in her latest video:
“I’ve got very good news for you. The world is not ending because of climate change. In fact, 12 years from now we will still be around casually taking photos on our iPhone 18s, tweeting about the current President on Twitter and ranting about the latest celebrity gossip.”
“However, we are currently being force-fed a very dystopian agenda of climate alarmism that tells us that we, as humans, are destroying the planet and that the young people especially have no future. That the animals are dying, that we are ruining nature.”
“I truly believe that many members of Antifa, Fridays for Future groups, Rebellion Extinction, I really believe that many of them have good intentions but that they are genuinely scared of the word ‘ending’ and are scared that their parents and grandparents are ruining the planet.”
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Seibt continued:
“I believe it is important that we act now and change this entire mainstream narrative of fear-mongering and climate alarmism because it’s basically just holding us hostage in our own brains.”
She adds: “With all of that said, don’t let an agenda that is trying to depict you as an energy-sucking leech on the planet get into your brain and take away all of your passionate spirits. I don’t want you to panic, I want you to think.”
CPAC, or the Conservative Political Action Conference, is an annual political conference attended by conservative activists and elected officials from across the United States.
CPAC, held at DC Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center, kicks off today and runs through February 29th.
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