Clarkson’s Farm star Jeremy Clarkson has unleashed furious insults at so-called “woke parents” as he issues parenting advice to save a “generation of irritating children”
Jeremy Clarkson has launched a blistering attack on so-called “woke parents”.
The former Top Gear star claims they are terrifying their youngsters with relentless climate change warnings. The 65-year-old presenter, now famous for his hit Amazon show Clarkson’s Farm, slammed certain parents for connecting rural scenes to environmental disaster.
In his latest Sun column, Clarkson blasted them for making children become “irritating like Greta” in a brutal assault on what he considers a destructive parenting approach.
He said: “Parents have been warned that if they take their children into the countryside, all the wildlife and all the greenery could trigger worries about climate change,” reports the Express.
“This is probably true if you’re the sort of parent who tells your kids that the cow they’re looking at is causing global warming, or that the berries in the hedges mean we’ll soon all be consumed by a raging firestorm.”
He said parents who identify yellowing leaves in August as “a sure sign we will all be burning by next weekend.”
Clarkson claimed these comments frighten children and will produce a generation of worried teenagers: “If you’re the sort of halfwit who says these things then yes, the poor little mites will probably have such an enormous anxiety attack that they’ll grow up to be as irritating as Greta Thunberg.”
Clarkson drew comparisons with his own recent experiences alongside his two young grandchildren, both “city kids,” who he said adored their visits to his Oxfordshire farm. They gathered eggs, plucked raspberries and enjoyed the countryside without speaking about disappearing ice caps or devastating blazes.
“At no point did I feel compelled to say that the only reason we can grow durum wheat in Britain is because it’s a bit warmer here these days. I didn’t then show them all the forlorn ash trees killed by some godawful disease, because why would I? They’re kids. And it’s my job to make them happy, not miserable.”
“I like to think that when they get there, they will look back on their two weeks in the countryside with fondness. Not a fear that it’ll all soon disappear.”
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