EFE.- The Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg stressed this Monday at a concentration of the environmental group Fridays For Future (Friday for the future) next to the convention center where the climate summit is taking place, that the “Change will not come from within” because the leadership “is out here, not within COP26”.
“We say no more ‘blah blah blah’, no more exploitation of people, nature and the planet; no more whatever they do in there, ”Thunberg said in statements to the media at Festival Park, on the banks of the River Clyde, which runs alongside COP26.
Thunberg arrived in Glasgow last Sunday by train and will participate in two large protests in the city at the end of the week, one on November 5 organized by Fridays for Future and another on the 6th in which various British environmental organizations of the so-called ‘ COP coalition ‘.
The Swedish activist said that “This COP26 is the same as the previous ones so far and it won’t get us anywhere” and added that “they are only politicians pretending that they take seriously our future and the present of the people who already suffer the impacts of the climate crisis.”
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Subsequently, the arrival of various climate activists was expected aboard the Greenpeace ship known as ‘Rainbow Warrior’, which defied the Glasgow authorities with its intention to navigate the River Clyde until COP26 – despite the fact that in principle it was He had denied him access – although his arrival did not take place in the end.
Still, a large group of activists from the environmental organization Fridays For Future addressed the media gathered by the river to show that “The press only looks for images of Greta and ignores the rest of the activists”.
There also met a group of activists from the collective Latinas for Climate (Latinas por el Clima), an organization allied with Fridays For Future, to highlight “the extractivist model that finances technology to face climate change, but that goes through above the rights of the people, ”Karin Watson, a Chilean activist of this Latin American environmental group, told EFE.
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“This model steals, dirties and pollutes the lands of indigenous peoples,” said Watson, referring to the extraction of lithium, a strategic metal that is essential for the manufacture of batteries that power zero-emission electric vehicles.
Pamela ea, Watson’s partner in the Latinas for Climate association and a native of Mexico, explained to EFE that “Leaders only talk nice without taking climate action” and that “they do not take into account the voice of youth in the face of the climate crisis.”
Ea pointed out that his country, Mexico, is an “oil power that is not interested in reducing emissions”; In fact, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “has not wanted to come” because “obviously he does not have the same interests as the youth of Mexico”, who are also very concerned about “gender inequality” since “women are the most affected by imbalances generated by the climate crisis ”.
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