'COP26 is a failure': Greta Thunberg says climate summit has turned into a PR event

[OneCrazyDiamond]

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/05/greta-thunberg-says-cop26-climate-summit-is-a-failure-and-a-pr-event.html
GLASGOW, Scotland — Climate activist Greta Thunberg said Friday that the COP26 climate summit is a failure, lambasting the U.N.-brokered talks for turning into a public relations exercise.

“It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” Thunberg said.

“The COP has turned into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action.”

She was speaking on stage shortly after a strike organized by “Fridays For Future” saw thousands march 1.6 miles from Kelvingrove Park to George Park in Glasgow’s city center — less than 2 miles from where the COP26 event is being held.




I never in all my life would have thought Boris Johnson would try and lead on Climate Change.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. Boris won't--or can't--do anything substantive, and he knows it.

Now that it is too late to do anything but mitigate damage, he's swooping in for some heroic pablum so he'll be remembered more fondly than he rightly deserves.

[Miguelito Loveless]

2. He isn't

He just says things that make him look good, then denies it when called upon to execute.

[Philosophizing Fool]

3. Smart one that Thunberg

Seems a zoom call could have accomplished 90% of what the meeting did. Save a bunch of carbon and perhaps throw the budget at any number of more direct causes. I do admire someone who sees through the bull and Greta doesn't disappoint.

[WarGamer]

5. Over 400 private jets, btw... nice

[ripcord]

10. Don't forget all the chauffeur driven cars idling while they waited for the planes to land

[WarGamer]

11. "Green Theater"

[WarGamer]

4. This is ALL theater.

I partially agree with Greta.

Here's where she's off.

In reality, the crossing point was probably in the early 19th Century.

Once industrialization gripped the world we were done.

And here were are in the 21st Century with an unbelievable global population and it's really too late.

Sure you can bail out the Titanic with teacups like buying EV's or installing solar panels but as long as China and India are building coal fired power plants weekly, we're on track to 1000ppm of CO2 by 2100 which means... Palm trees in the Arctic Circle.

[Ron Green]

12. I think there were a couple of opportunities.

When cities were taken over by automobiles in the 1920’s we could have responded differently than did Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, by establishing public transit as the future for urban and interurban travel.

And post-WW2, we could have rejected the huge growth of consumerism, the interstate highway project, and the suburban experiment in development.

Even continuing Henry Wallace as VP in 1944 would have had a salutary effect.

[JoanofArgh]

6. Greta is probably right but she doesn't have to deal with

Houses, Senates , and Parliaments . At least an event was held.

[Talitha]

7. THIS

[jcgoldie]

8. Keep the pressure on Greta

The level of defeatism on DU over the past week on the most important issue facing this country and every other since Coal Manchin struck climate measures from the bill is quite disappointing.

[Kaleva]

9. At some point, Greta may realize that combatting climate change never really had much of a chance.

Human nature being what it is.

[Azathoth]

13. It's the same response we had to covid

Patchwork efforts but no collective commitment to a serious uniform solution.

Climate change needs to be accepted the same way covid is being accepted. The battle will eventually shift from preventing it to mitigating its effects.