How the left uses the disabled and depressed to guilt you into something insane: Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg's father Svante reveals he thought the 16-year-old's eco-crusade was a 'bad idea' - but believes it has actually saved her from a pit of depression he feared would KILL her

• Climate activist Miss Thunberg, 16, was a guest editor on the BBC's Today show 
• She said she will go back to school one day and denies she is leading movement  
• Her father Svante says he was against her campaign and says he is not an activist
• Before her campaign Greta stopped talking, eating and would not go to school
• Mr Thunberg says the campaign 'saved' her and she laughs off all criticism of it 
• Sir David Attenborough told Greta in Skype call she had achieved more than him
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• Greta Thunberg's father today revealed he feared depression would kill her before she launched her 'climate crisis' campaign as the teenager blasted Donald Trump and insisted meeting him would be a 'waste of time'.
  Svante Thunberg told his 16-year-old daughter it was 'a bad idea' to lead the campaign to halt global warming – but now believes it 'saved her' after she stopped eating and talking for months during a long bout of depression. 
  Speaking on a special edition of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme guest-edited by Greta, Mr Thunberg said in a rare interview: 'We thought it was a bad idea, just the idea of your own daughter sort of putting herself at the very front line of such a huge question like climate change. You wouldn't want that as a parent'. 
  He described how the young climate activist 'fell ill' and stopped eating and talking to others, staying at home for a year from the age of 11 when she was first diagnosed with Asperger's.
  
  
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