In response to the video, Greta Thunberg joked, 'I have moved on from this climate thing... From now on I will be doing death metal only!!'
The music climaxes each time after Thunberg, holding back tears, asks world leaders:"How dare you?"
The video, uploaded last Wednesday by user John Mollusk, had more than 3.1 million views as of Monday morning. Over the weekend, Thunbergout a link to it, joking,"I have moved on from this climate thing... From now on I will be doing death metal only!!" The creator did not immediately return a request for comment from NBC News. But in an interview last week with, which identified the creator as thrash-metal drummer John Meredith, he said he was prompted to make the video because he agreed with Thunberg's perspective and also thought her searing language lent itself to metal.
“When I saw her speech, I was very impressed by her passion and outrage,” he told the magazine, adding,"I guess I didn’t really have a specific intent other than to turn her brutal words into a metal song.”
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