On Nov. 5, about 25,000 youth and others protested in the streets of Glasgow, Scotland. Greta Thunberg addressed the mob and complained that “everyone knows” that COP26 has been a “total failure” (because it didn’t go far enough): “We need immediate drastic annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen,” she screeched. She was joined by Ugandan Vanessa Nakate, who likewise said that “We must demand that our leaders stop holding meaningless summits and start taking meaningful action.”
On Nov. 6, climate change protests took place in major cities around the world, such as Paris, Sydney and London. In Glasgow, a demonstration, reportedly of over 100,000 people of diverse groups, such as Black Lives Matter, trade unions, Marxists, feminists, and advocates for indigenous peoples, marched through the streets of central Glasgow, in a hodge-podge of “causes” under the banner of “Climate Justice.”
But, they were hardly unified.
The Washington Post reported that Nakate complained that climate change disproportionately affects women and girls in her community, “because they must walk further to collect water.” A Black Lives Matter protester grumbled that climate change has been affecting black people for a long time, pointing out how “her people” in Jamaica were faced with warming weather and rising seas. And, of course, the indigenous people chimed in to insist that, no, they were the first to experience climate change.
The climate expressed its opinion with downpours of rain and cold weather.
