Can a “Rickroll” save the planet? Greta Thunberg hopes so.
The teenage climate activist took the stage on Saturday at a climate concert in Stockholm and performed the internet’s favorite tune: 1987’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley.
Fridays for Future’s Andreas Magnusson also performed the song and dance routine.
Astley himself reposted the “fantastic” footage on Twitter and said thank you.
The event kicked off Climate Live 2021, a global series of 19 concerts meant to pressure world leaders ahead of a November conference with world leaders in Scotland: COP26, the 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change.
Elsewhere during the concert, Thunberg said that the Glasgow-based conference was one of humanity’s last chances to take the necessary steps to avoid catastrophic global warming, but was unlikely to “lead to big changes,” similar to how the Paris Accords which came from COP21 have yet to be fully implemented and met.
