Greta Thunberg warns everything we love is at stake as she arrives at UN climate talks
ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived at U.N. climate talks on Tuesday, condemning the annual proceedings as hypocritical and urging leaders to put people and the planet ahead of profits and power.
The COP31 conference is being held in the Turkish resort city of Antalya following a year of deadly climate-related disasters, including heat waves and floods, and another energy shock caused by the Iran war.
“It’s a hypocrisy every year that the host countries are given an opportunity to whitewash themselves and we know that these negotiations are filled with lobbyists, paid by the very destructive industries which are benefiting from our extremely violent status quo,” Thunberg said as she arrived. “Our political and economic systems that have become incompatible with human nature.”
Strewth - the bone-aching tedium of it all, year after year, the impenetrable dullness of the fanatic. Unfortunately this is part of human nature too.
I think I'll wander off into the kitchen for a biscuit and a cup of tea, even two biscuits.
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