“You can’t run the wheelbarrow from Malmö to Haparanda (1.628 km, red.), if I may put it that way.”
Queen Margrethe made headlines in the autumn, when she in an interview with Swedish Kvällsposten sent a broadside off against our neighbouring country’s way to relate to the climate issue on the.
But on new year’s eve, the message was aimed a little check.
“We have a shared commitment for our beautiful planet so teeming with life. It is a major challenge for us all today, and it is all about, that we all are aware of how we live and what we do,” said the queen Margrethe in nytårstalen.
And to complete the confusion, we can then take hold of the interview, as the Queen Friday gave to the newspaper Politiken.
Again it was a skeptical tone from the soon-to-80-year-old woman, who in the interview, warning that “panic about climate change” and which also makes clear that she is not convinced that climate change is directly created by humans.
if you Ask Sebastian Olden Jørgensen, who is a senior lecturer with a special focus on hofhistorie at the Copenhagen University, it’s a bit surprising that we now see it here interview from Her Majesty the Queen.
“It’s less professional than I had expected, and so it is surprising, but all the same. The lady soon 80 years old,” he says.
But you can understand if there are the danes, who can’t quite find out what our queen actually mean?
“Yes, for there is a certain contradiction between the two interviews and nytårstalen. It does not hang well together,” says Sebastian Olden Jørgensen.
Where should the danes then look away, if they shall find her real attitude? The interviews or nytårstalen?
“definitely the interviews. After all, there are more of them, and when you allow yourself to interview, you can, well come to to say or to ‘talk over it'”.
But why do you think that we are experiencing the here changing messages?
“This is a good question. I thought that she wrote her own nytårstaler, but maybe this is a sign that she’s getting a little advice, when it must be written, and that she might have been encouraged to focus on the climate for the new year”.
in reality, say many political parties, with the other words, we should panikke a little about the climate. Now she says the opposite. Sit the politicians and is a little frustrated right now?
“If you are tough, you can well say that it is a bit of political tonedøvt, yes. She puts in a second place a the political mainstream, and it is interesting.”
But it was okay, that the Queen acts ‘political tonedøvt’ or what?
“It must be she, of course, and now it is also not the way that she calls people klimatosser or something. She expresses herself not bombastic and is probably not an outright klimabenægter, but she has a skepticism”.
the Interview is made in connection with the Queen’s upcoming 80th birthday.
