Climate activists rip off heads of state and government at the COP26 summit in Glasgow and “what they did.”
COP26 has officially started, and Greta Thunberg seems Greta Thunberg to be enjoying her time up north so far. On Monday (November 1), Swedish activists joined the crowd of demonstrators and sang: “You can push the climate crisis down your ass.”
The 18-year-old activist was among hundreds of activists at Glasgow Festival Park. One of many demonstrations organized against leaders’ lack of action to tackle the climate emergency. An excerpt from Thunberg tweeted the video with her singing and captioned: “When in Scotland…”
Addressing the crowd across the river from COP26, he said, “At COP, only politicians also those in power pretend to make our future seriously. We say: “Without more Greta Thunberg blah-blah-blah no more exploitation of humans, nature, and the planet. There’s nothing more to do, damn it.
Thunberg is no stranger to embracing his musical side by dancing to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”. His version of Rickroll – and releasing Swedish death metal-memes from his speech at the United Nations at a recent climate concert in Stockholm.
The COP26 summit, which runs from October 31 to November 12. Pledged to “bring the parties together to accelerate action to achieve the archive of the Paris Agreement. And the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Heads of state also government from 120 countries are meeting for talks, and about 25,000 delegates will attend the conference.
Back in August, after the devastating IPCC climate report, youth activists told News. That urgent action was needed to “quickly and drastically reduce emissions” and keep global warming below the two degrees Celsius proposed in the Paris Agreement.