Angry that she was not invited to COP26, the U.S. global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, 18-year-old teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg opened up both barrels denouncing the summit as failed PR stunt. “It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure. It should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place,” Thunberg said, repeating the same tired messages since she started slamming world leaders as a 14-year-old. World leaders have learned to pay lip serve or ignore Thunberg, fearing a media backlash, protecting her against any criticism, like when former President Donald Trump told her Dec. 12, 2016 to work on her anger. Trump wasn’t happy when the fake news awarded her Person of the Year as 16-year-old, showing the way the press operates with the chosen ones. Thunberg complains a lot about climate change but has no answers.
Thunberg’s PR handlers instruct her how to bait politicians, making a mockery of her critics. “Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta Chill!” Trump said, inviting Grerta’s PR handlers to make an insipid rejoinder. “Currently chilling with a good old fashioned movie with a friend,” Greta responded, deflating Trump’s criticism. But the real issue is not Greta Thunberg but how absurd the global press handles the climate crisis, echoed by several world leaders attending Glasgow. Greta wasn’t invited because she’s not taken seriously by anyone other than the media, who like to use her as a foil against the establishment. Greta wasn’t invited to Glasgow because organizers know in advance what she plans to say. Greta expressed the collective anger of youth convinced there will be no world tomorrow.
When you consider the massive undertaking of COP26 for all its organizers, they’ve spent million and enormous energy on creating global awareness for climate change. “The COP has turned into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still refusing any drastic climate action.” Greta thinks world leaders should ban trains, planes and automobiles, not to mention anything that produces carbon monoxide. If Greta got her way, the world would plunge into a Great Depression, with an already impoverished developing and third world countries amplifying problems of disease and starvation. But, as Greta sees it, that’s preferable to greenhouse gases. Today’s global press likes to use Thunberg as a spoil against world leaders trying to find solutions to climate change.
U.K. disagrees with Greta’s remarks, calling COP26 the most significant diplomatic event in world history. World leaders made commitments to phase out coal fired power plants, cut methane emissions 30% by 2030 and reverse deforestation, a major cause of depleted oxygen levels. Yet Greta thinks COP26 is a farce because she’s not invited to grandstand on the world stage. Greta called COP26 “the most exclusionary COP ever,” referring, of course, to the fact she wasn’t invited. Calling COP26 a “two-week-long celebration of business as usual and blah, blah, blah,” the media says nothing about Greta’s outrageous tantrums. No, the global media likes to use Greta against world leaders like former President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Joe Biden jumped on the Greta bandwagon slamming Xi Jinping for not attending.
World leaders know they can never satisfy Greta’s pie-in-the-sky fantasy to end all carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Promising a 30% reduction of methane emissions isn’t realistic when world leaders back electric vehicles that run on electricity generated from methane gas fired power plants. As the percentage of electric cars go up, the production of methane fired power plants also goes up. So whatever Greta’s solution’s, namely, going back before the Industrial Revolution, isn’t practical, would cause millions if not billions of deaths worldwide to starvation and disease. Greta’s right about one thing: That whatever measures are contemplated by COP26 world leaders, it’s not going to put a dent in climate change. But climate change is preferable to mass starvation and disease. Greta speaks to the media and gullible youths, easily misled by vociferous climate activists.
Whoever supports Greta financially, the media is completely duped by her juvenile messaging, saying nothing constructive or logical. “Once again, we are faced with another COP event. How many more of these should they hold until they realize that their inactions are destroying the planet?” said a Greta follower, climate activist Vanessa Nakate from Uganda. “The COP26 is so far just like the previous COP’s—and that has led us nowhere,” Greta said Monday, speaking to other climate activists. Greta can’t fathom the fact that she doesn’t understand the science or the business of climate change, requiring practical solutions, not returning to the Stone Age. “Net zero by 2050. Blah, blah, blah. New zero. Blah, blah, blah,” Greta said. “Our hopes and dreams drown in their empty words and promises,” Greta said, pandering to an equally unrealistic press looking only for headlines.
