Greta Thunberg: "Climate Summits are a scam"

Greta Thunberg has warned against "the symbolic value of holding COP27 in a paradise for tourists and in a country that systematically violates human rights."

, but not precisely because of its distance: "We activists have to make people see that

and that this system is failing us."

"The Cops have become an occasion for the powerful to lie, cheat and do greenwashing," the Swedish activist denounced at the massive presentation of

in London.

"The summits

. But the truth is that they have failed humanity when it comes to bringing about great changes and progress has been very slow."

"The Cops have at least served as an opportunity for mobilization," said the founder of

, with the experience of her time at COP25 in Madrid and COP26 in Glasgow.

"But that is not going to be possible in Egypt because there is going to be no room for civil society in a place like Sharm El Sheikh."

Greta Thunberg joined last week the petition signed by nearly

asking the Egyptian authorities to open civil space and release political prisoners.

Thunberg met on Sunday morning with the sister of

, the British-Egyptian activist who has been on hunger strike for more than six months -he only eats a spoonful of honey and a little milk a day- and who has become the center of the campaign.

President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi's regime is estimated to be

, including dozens of environmental activists.

Petitions to the Egyptian government on the issue of human rights have opened a schism between environmental groups (with the conspicuous absence of Greenpeace) that threatens to tarnish COP27 from start to finish.

"Change will not come from power because

," said Greta Thunberg.

"The time for small individual changes is behind us. We can all contribute on a personal level, but what is needed now is a massive mobilization to put pressure on those in power."

"I do not intend to make the leap into politics and I hope that those who are close to me will not leave me if one day I announce it," added the 19-year-old activist, still in high school.

"My job will continue to be pressure from the outside, although I don't have a preconceived plan now about how to continue. I also didn't think that what I did would end up being a movement:

, when I I stood with my pamphlets and the "Climate Striking" poster in front of the Swedish Parliament".

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In her own way, Thunberg

, which after throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh's sunflowers in the National Gallery have decided to paint the British government offices orange for lack of action in the face of the climate crisis...

"We are in a desperate situation and a lot of people are getting desperate and trying to find new methods, because everything we have done so far has not worked. There have been a lot of actions and I cannot generalize, but

. of attracting media

In a long talk with the BBC journalist Samira Ahmed,

at the Southbank Center (the same stage used by Michelle Obama to present her autobiography), Thunberg spoke of the "information crisis" and the Systematic failure of the media to convey the "emergency" in which we are already "connecting the dots between the floods that have covered a third of Pakistan and the extreme drought in the Horn of Africa".

"Those of us who live in the global north have at least the option to act, but those who are suffering the greatest impact do not, which is why it is so important to vindicate the concept of climate justice," Thunberg stressed.

"I

. I stopped doing it and convinced my parents, but they also got there in the end out of their own conviction."

Wearing ripped knee jeans and a T-shirt with a red heart, more smiling and "plumper" than a year ago in Glasgow, Greta presented

(Lumen) as her "

" and as a reaction before the supposed "return to normality".

"The "normality" was the crisis that we already had and that is getting worse year after year," he warned at the outset.

“The UN report on the emissions gap has made it clear these days: we are moving towards a scenario of more than 2.5 degrees and it is possible that this same decade we will reach a temperature increase of 1.5 degrees. A systemic transformation is lacking and we have to get everyone on board".

"With the best experts"

The climate book

, he assures, is an "educational" attempt ("forgive the contradiction, bearing in mind that all this started with the school strikes") to try to explain

, how it affects us, what done so far and what we still have to do: "When people asked me where to start, I would give them a list of books, each from a different angle. That's how the idea of ​​putting it all together in one book and telling with the best experts.

Climate science pioneers like

, economists like

, journalists like

, authors like

.

More than a hundred voices make up the peculiar climate choir, with Greta Thunberg leading the baton and plucking the score with severe warnings...

"The climate is changing on steroids."

"The snowball is on."

"It's closer than we think."

"We're not all in the same boat."

"

."

"A whole new way of thinking."

"Hope is something we have to earn."

"The transformation necessary to stay below 1.5 degrees or even two degrees [of increase in global average temperature] may seem politically impossible to us today," warns Greta.

"But

tomorrow."

"The destruction of the biosphere, the destabilization of the climate or the deterioration of future living conditions

," concludes the Swedish activist.

"It is not human nature, and we are not the problem. All this is happening because we are not aware of the situation or the consequences. But, as soon as we understand the nature of the crisis we are in, we will surely act."

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