Thousands of young people have taken over the city of Glasgow in the Fridays For Future climate protest, and in its streets they have roared against the “blah, blah, blah” and the “empty promises” of the Climate Summit.
On COP26, the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has stressed that “this is the least inclusive of how many there have been” and has defined it as “a festival of ecoposturetas” in which “beautiful promises are announced”, but “behind the curtain they refuse to take any initiative for climate action”.
Thousands of young people, including Thunberg, have taken over the city of Glasgow this Friday in the climate protest of the organization Fridays For Future (“Friday for the future”, FFF in English), and in its streets they have roared against the “blah, blah blah “and the” empty promises “of the Climate Summit (COP26).
Protesters –25 000 According to FFF and thousands according to police sources – they shouted with joy when the brief rays of sun that filtered through the clouds that covered the Scottish sky this Friday illuminated the colorful forest of cardboard banners that led the march, a place reserved for the indigenous people.
Shouting “What do we want? Climate justice!” Or “Climate change is a war of the rich against the poor”, thousands of young activists have expressed their outrage at what they consider to be passivity of the political class .
The march has marched through the center of the city escorted by a strong police force and has developed without incident on its way to George Square, where a stage has been set up in which various indigenous spokespersons and young people affected by the inequality caused by the climate crisis exposed the impacts they already suffer.
Mass demonstration in Glasgow (Scotland). Photo: EFE
Although he made him wait several hours, Thunberg has appeared on the scene to the cheers of an angry crowd at the fact, in his opinion, that “the leaders deliberately continue with the exploitation of nature and people”, which “destroys the conditions of present and future life, “said Thunberg.
The Swedish activist has assured that “COP26 is a failure; it is obvious that the climate summits have become public relations events”, which in her opinion “only serve to perpetuate poverty and inequality”, while the elite “keep their profits.”
Also from the stage, the Ugandan environmental activist for climate justice, Vanessa Nakate, has said that “we are facing a new COP, but how many more will we have to celebrate for the leaders to realize that their inaction is destroying the planet?”
“The climate in my country, Uganda, is changing rapidly” causing “people to die and children to drop out of school; it is a disaster that happens every day in Africa”, a continent that “is on the front line of climate change, but it doesn’t make the front page of any newspaper, despite it. “
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