Greta Thunberg has described climate summits such as the COP27 conference taking place in Egypt next week as a “scam” that is “failing” humanity and the planet by not leading to “major changes.”
The Swedish activist said people in positions of power were using the high-profile gatherings for attention and were “greenwashing, lying, and cheating”. [bold, links added]
“As it is now, COPs not are not really going to lead to any major changes, unless of course, we use them as an opportunity to mobilize,” she said on stage at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival on Sunday where she was promoting her new work The Climate Book, an anthology of essays on the climate crisis from over one hundred experts.
Activists must try to “make people realize what a scam this is and realize that these systems are failing us”, she added.
This week the UN warned that there is “no clear pathway” in place to limit global heating to 1.5C – a target from the 2016 Paris Agreement – as only a handful of countries had strengthened their pledges to take action.
In a wide-ranging keynote address and on-stage interview with the journalist Samira Ahmed, Ms. Thunberg spoke on everything from politics and activism to how to deal with eco-anxiety.
Asked for her thoughts on the controversial tactics of groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, who have recently made headlines, including by throwing soup over Van Gough’s Sunflowers, the teenager said there was a broad range of actions so [she] couldn’t generalize, but that she thought it was “reasonable” to expect climate activists to try different kinds of actions.
“We’re right now in a very desperate position and many people are becoming desperate and are trying to find new methods because we realize that what we’ve been doing up until now has not done the trick,” she told Ahmed.
As for upsetting people, she said “harming people is one thing and making someone annoyed is a different thing.”
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“…people are becoming desperate…”
Yes, desperation driven by climate activists such as Greta Thunberg!
There is no climate crisis, if the climate changes we will modify our way of life to suit! Just like wearing a raincoat or using an umbrella when it rains! Seeemples!
Greta the False Prophet of Climate Change just like Gore the Bore
Well, Greta is correct that the COPs are scams. They are a chance for the uber-wealthy and politicians to get together, have top-notch dinners, spout nonsense and pretend that they will really make changes this time. Then they go home (flying their private jets that got them there) and change nothing.
The optics are obviously bad, flying thousands of bureaucrats to the Middle East where they will promote wind turbines and solar panels at the expense of oil. It could be accomplished via satellite and the Internet. I believe that they meet annually so that they can speak in private, nudge nudge, wink wink, with no record of their conversations. This year’s confab would be a prime eavesdropping feast for the media, if the media was seriously invested in reporting the truth.
Most all the world leaders will arrive in Private Jets and be driven there in Limos and stay at posh hotels using al that Electricity and Water while they plan to bring about the New World Order under the guise of preventing a totally made up crisis
Has she grown up yet?
No, and she never will. Just as ALL left-wingers never grow up.
I think it was Churchill who said:
“That you were not a Socialist when you were 20, you had no heart. And if you were not a Conservative when you were 40, you had no brain.”
Sorry I missed the “if” on the comment.
31 OCTOBER 2022 Greta Thunberg Goes Full Woke, Calls for “Overthrow of Whole Capitalist System”
The Doom Goblin has come of age, and with maturity (don’t scoff) has come a widening of her political vision. No longer is she merely the teenager who “sees carbon dioxide“, but now she is become the prophet calling for the overthrow of the “whole capitalist system”, with its “colonialism, imperialism, oppression, genocide” of “racist, oppressive extractionism”.
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/31/greta-thunberg-goes-full-woke-calls-for-overthrow-of-whole-capitalist-system/
October 3, 2019 FAMILY VALUES Greta Thunberg’s parents – who are the climate activist’s family and what have they said?
CLIMATE change activist Greta Thunberg is now a familiar face known around the world. But while the teenager has hit the headlines who are her parents and what are their beliefs?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10059484/greta-thunberg-parents-malena-ernman-svante/amp/