Thunberg warns Cop31 planet is being killed; documentary clip shows her laughing at climate protests

Climate activist Greta Thunberg told the Cop31 UN climate summit in Antalya, Turkey, that the planet is not dying but being killed, in her first appearance at the annual talks in five years. Speaking alongside activists from Nepal, Canada and Australia, the 23-year-old Swede accused governments of failing to stop environmental breakdown, said no one is coming to the rescue, and warned of more genocides and ecocides and the loss of basic rights. Separately, a newly released documentary, On Tanks into the Climate Crisis – How Activism is Criminalised, shows her laughing when told a Fridays for Future protest was taking place in Berlin. She started that movement in 2018 at age 15; in recent years she has shifted toward Gaza and pro-Palestinian activism, and last winter she was arrested in central London at a protest supporting jailed Palestine Action protesters on hunger strike.

The right-leaning Daily Mail covers only the documentary clip, its headline presenting Thunberg as laughing at protesters who still join Fridays for Future and repeating her remark. It adds her age at the movement's founding, her pro-Palestinian turn and her London arrest, and its opening omits the Cop31 speech. The left-leaning Guardian leads with the Antalya speech, featuring her statements on governments, human rights, genocides and ecocides, and mentions her Gaza focus only as background. Both describe her rise through the school climate strikes and her move to other causes, but the Mail frames the story around mockery of a movement while the Guardian frames it around a warning to negotiators. Al Jazeera's coverage closely matches the Guardian's.