Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has launched a tirade against 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

The outspoken 59-year-old lambasted Thunberg in an article for UK tabloid The Sun following her impassioned plea at the United Nations Climate Change Summit last week.

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“I’m sorry Ms Thunberg, but if you’re going to lay into my generation, you must accept it when I lay into you and yours,” he wrote.

“We gave you mobile phones and laptops and the internet. We created the social media you use every day and we run the banks that pay for it all,” he added.

“So how dare you stand there and lecture us, you spoilt brat.”

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