Greta Thunberg slams COP26 ‘failure’ and more ‘blah, blah, blah’ at youth rally 
November 6 2021 New Daily.

Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg has slammed the COP26 summit as a “failure” and “greenwash festival” as thousands of young people took to the streets of Glasgow in protest.   

On the sixth day of the world meeting which has achieved a series of agreements, Greta rejected the gathering of powerful leaders as more “blah, blah, blah” which followed decades of “blah, blah, blah”.

The Swedish activist called for action, including “immediate drastic annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen” instead of just another talkfest.

“The people in power can continue to live in their bubble filled with their fantasies, like eternal growth on a finite planet and technological solutions that will suddenly appear seemingly out of nowhere and will erase all of these crises just like that,” she told the gathering in George Square.

“All this while the world is literally burning, on fire, and while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis.”

Ms Thunberg rejected the UN climate change summit as a “two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah”.

“It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place and more and more people are starting to realise this,” she told the crowd.

“Many are starting to ask themselves, ‘What will it take for the people in power to wake up?’ But let’s be clear, they are already awake. They know exactly what they are doing.

“COP26 has been named the most exclusionary cop ever. This is no longer a climate conference, this is now a global north greenwash festival.”


Youth climate march at COP26 draws thousands
Thousands of young climate activists, Greta Thunberg among them, marched through Glasgow on Friday demanding action on the climate that will protect their future.

The protest was organised by Fridays for Future Scotland and young people chanted and carried placards before gathering in George Square.

Another speaker included Vanessa Nakate from Uganda who described the real effects of climate change being experienced in her country.

“Historically, Africa is responsible for only 3% of global emissions and yet Africans are suffering some of the most brutal impacts fuelled by the climate crisis.

“But while the global south is on the frontlines of the climate crisis, they’re not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers.”

The show of youth force followed 77 signatories a COP26 pledging to phase out coal but not countries such as Australia, the US, India, and China.

Meanwhile a study has shown carbon dioxide emissions are back on the rise.

The United Nations says a rise above 1.5C will trigger potentially irreversible climate impacts that would dwarf the intensifying storms, heatwaves, droughts and floods that the planet is already experiencing.

Carbon dioxide emissions fell by 5.4 per cent in 2020 as economies ground to a halt.

But a new report by the Global Carbon Project forecasts they will rebound by 4.9 per cent this year.

“We were expecting to see some rebound,” said the report’s lead author Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate modelling researcher at the University of Exeter.

“What surprised us was the intensity and rapidity.”

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Wonder how many of these climate change protesters are busy booking their next overseas holidays for when Covid border restrictions are lifted?

Not to mention the hypocrisy of most of these so called leaders (including our own bumbling Scotty from Marketing) flying to and from Glasgow to attend this pointless wankfest.

To sum up... nothing will change, even when it gets to the point where we can't breathe.

The hoof is showing.


Climate activists demanded an end to capitalism, “black liberation”, and the abolition of police at a demonstration outside the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Gathering in George Square in central Glasgow on Saturday, an array of climate activists, including those from indigenous communities in South America, Asia, and Africa, came together to denounce Western imperialism and the alleged racism inherent in climate change.

This is not just a crisis of climate or emissions, this is a crisis of justice, of inequality, of poverty, of racism, of classism, of workers’ rights, and women’s rights and every intersection in between,” Stewart explained.

Prior to the demonstration, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg declared that “climate justice also means social justice and that we leave no one behind. So we’re inviting everyone, especially the workers striking in Glasgow, to join us.”

During her speech, the Swedish activist said that Western nations owe a “historical debt” to the so-called Global South due to the legacy of colonialism.




The climate crisis is a metastasised soviet. It's activists are the vanguard of the proletariat in climate and anti-racism guises.

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 7^th, 2021 at 11:32am:



Now give us the engineering that will give that.

Solar and wind are old technologies.

Solar was used to dry grain grasses. Still is in some countries.

Remember the Dutch windmills? They suffered the same failures of wind turbines. Wind is flukey where you can have periods of wind drought.

Pumped hydro storage has its own limitations. You need a suitable place for a dam and you need fall. Without fall there is not enough energy to turn the generators.

Smart grid? It can tell when there is not enough solar and wind and generates its own electricity?

Carl D wrote on Nov 6^th, 2021 at 9:34am:



thats a bullshit argument. The argument for action on climate change was never a call to return to the caves. It's a call to use alternative sources of energy where possible. It doesn't mean you don't drive a car, it means that if an electric car is suitable as an alternative, you use it.

The same goes for airlines. For now there is no suitable alternative to jet fueled planes. Electric planes are still in the infancy stage. No one is saying not to travel, but you can bet that when a suitable alternative becomes available, the airline industry will be pressured to act and use alternatives to jet fueled planes.

If anyone is interested I can summarize what Lee has said here.

Blah blah blah blah.