Yes, Thunberg’s concern today is for an ‘Indigenous’ Nordic tribe, but who might she next defend from wind farms?

At last, Greta Thunberg is saying some people are right to prefer their way of life to supposedly stopping global warming.

Greta Thunberg has cracked, and been arrested protesting against the ghastly wind farms supposedly meant to save us from global warming disaster.

In fact, she was dragged out feet first by police from outside Norway’s Ministry of Finance, whose staff must wonder if the famously frowning global-warming scold was playing her first joke.

How could Thunberg hate wind farms? Didn’t she say people were dying? Entire ecosystems were collapsing? And politicians had stolen her future with their empty words?

But for the first time I can recall, Thunberg, 238 weeks into her “school strike for climate”, was compromising.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg with protesters in Norway. Picture: AFP

True, these wind farms would power 100,000 homes, but they’d be built on land used by reindeer herders from the Sami ethnic minority, who thought their reindeer wouldn’t like the noise.

Thunberg backed them. “Indigenous rights!” she declared. “Climate action – that can’t happen at the expense of some people.”

At last. My point exactly.

Why are we switching off our coal-fired power stations at the expense of the poor, who now can’t afford heating in winter or cooling in summer?

Police arrested Greta Thunberg outside Norway’s Ministry of Finance. Picture: AFP

What’s the gain for all this pain, when there’s no climate catastrophe and this wouldn’t stop it anyway?

Now even pitiless Thunberg is weakening. Yes, her concern today is for an “Indigenous” Nordic tribe, but who might she next defend from wind farms?

Surely she’s not saying only certain ethnic groups must stop the planet frying? She’s not … racist?

But for Thunberg, this shift could be psychically difficult.

On her Twitter profile she announces she’s an “autistic climate justice activist”, but her mother said her “neuropsychiatric functional impairments” were a “superpower”. Thunberg agreed this “superpower” helped her to “think outside the box” with clarity and without needing to “really care about social codes”.

As I wrote before, her “superpower” in fact seemed a weakness that could help explain her eerie certainty and hatred of compromise – exactly what made her a global-warming messiah to the passionate young, hungry for the certainties of religion, not the doubts of reason.

“Blah blah blah,” she jeered at politicians wrestling with the very real problem of cutting emissions without turning off the lights.

Yet now Thunberg says some people – Sami herders, to start with – are right to prefer their way of life to supposedly stopping global warming.