Britain’s answer to Greta Thunberg is a nine-year-old schoolgirl who lives ‘off-grid’ with her family in Somerset.

Eve Tizard said she was inspired to stand up and take action by the Swedish teenager who started an international youth movement against climate change.

And she took her stand on top of a makeshift table by with a microphone in her hand, leading a rallying cry of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ for activists by Lambeth Bridge in central London.

She told the crowd: ‘Wake up leaders of the world, the world is dying.

‘The future is in your hands, act now.’

After her speech, Eve explained why she is speaking up for her generation.

She told Metro.co.uk: ‘Greta Thunberg inspired me because I thought she did amazing speeches and I thought I could speak in front of everyone and just try and help our world.’

She added: ‘Our world is getting destroyed by plastic and global warming.’

Eve said her family helped her write the speech but said she came up with this line all by herself: ‘We’re being beaten by people who would rather have a pocket full of money than a planet full of life.’

Proud dad Nick said the family are ‘trying to facilitate’ Eve’s passion for climate activism, and allow her to stand up and talk as much as possible.

Nick and mum-of-five Kirsty moved the family from Devon to Tinkers Bubble, a self-sufficient community in south Somerset, in December.

Just over a dozen people live there and they till the land using horses and a Victorian plough, saw timber using a 1930s steam engine and sell homemade apple juice to local shops.

They grow most of their own food with the occasional help from volunteers who come to Tinkers Bubble to experience communal living.

Washing requires lighting a wood-burning stove to produce hot water in a few hours.

Tinkers Bubble, which has been established for 25 years, was recently featured in a BBC Inside Out West documentary.

Kirsty told the programme: ‘We both ran our own businesses for quite a few years, we had five children and a very hectic life.

‘I had what you might call a midlife crisis – I had a feeling of “is this all there is to living?”

‘It just seemed a rat race of trying to earn enough to pay the rent.’

Nick described things the family have given up, such as indoor toilets and washing machines, as needless luxuries.

He said that before leaving Devon, he had been ‘feeling fairly guilty’ about what his family were consuming.

‘We’re not living our life much differently to the vast majority of people on this planet.

‘The carbon footprint that we have here is pretty much the same as the global average per person. So we’re not really that extreme.’

The couple’s children help with tasks at the site and have joined the local school.

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