Greta Has No Regrets about Getting Detained

Everyone knew everything was back to normal at last week’s Davos meeting in Switzerland when Greta Thunberg showed up.

Thunberg, the Swedish high-school dropout who shot to fame as a ‘climate activist’ overnight, is a touring celebrity and Davos is now back on her schedule after a pandemic interlude.

Her last gig before Davos this month was in Germany. She boasted she was detained there by police during a protest over a coal-mine expansion.

Video from Reuters shows Thunberg sitting with fellow protesters before three police officers pick her up and carry her by her arms and legs. Then she is seen chatting and laughing with the officers, even posing for selfies with them before being released.

For Greta, climate activism is a lark in which local officials are often props on her road show. At Davos, she gave a speech on the evils of fossil fuels that had the elite audience nodding and clapping. The only people who don’t appreciate her stunts are families who find themselves squeezed by high energy prices in rich countries or people in poor countries who find the door to a better future slammed in their face by climate extremists opposed to economic growth.