It has been said many times, but we see it very clearly with the latest Social Justice outburst from Greta Thunberg and others. Apparently, the West owes a “historical debt” to the Third World and of course, all people of colour. No recognition here that the West actually build these countries and brought them into modernity. Most of the people alive today would not exist if not for the West, especially Africans. That counts for nothing in the fanatical world of the left. Further, not a pip about present day Chinese colonialism in Africa.
“Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has implied that the West owes a “historical debt” to countries in the Global South to drastically reduce carbon emissions due to the legacy of colonialism.
Speaking at a Fridays for Future youth protest in Glasgow, Scotland, on the fringes of the United Nations COP26 climate conference, 18-year-old Thunberg said: “The climate and ecological crisis, of course, does not exist in a vacuum. It is directly tied to other crises and injustices that date back to colonialism and beyond.
“Crises based on the idea that some people are worth more than others and therefore have the right to exploit others and steal their land and resources.”
The teen climate activist continued by implying that the climate crisis cannot be solved without confronting these “injustices”, saying: “It is very naive of us to think that we can solve this crisis without addressing the root cause of it.”
She then alluded to the West, using the increasingly popular term ‘Global North’ to describe the developed world — compared to the ‘Global South’, which is also being used more frequently in recent years to discuss climate change and ‘decolonising’ the alleged crisis — having a “historical debt” to the countries it colonised, which she says are on the “front line” of the “climate crisis”.
Thunberg said in footage taken by Breitbart London: “But this is not going to be spoke about inside the COP. It’s just too uncomfortable. It’s much easier for them to simply ignore the historical debt that the countries of the Global North have towards the most affected people and areas.”
The 18-year-old then accused the “people in power” of living in “their bubble filled with their fantasies” while “the world is literally burning, on fire, and while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis”.
This is not the first time the issue of alleged manmade climate change have intersected with so-called social justice and historical colonialism, with both Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists rallying together for a “reparations rebellion” protest in September 2020, demanding recompense from large British institutions like the Lloyd’s of London bank for their part in the slave trade.
On Friday, Thunberg also branded the United Nations COP26 climate conference an intentional “failure” and a “PR event”, because world leaders would not agree to “drastic”, society-altering emissions cuts.
“The COP is turning into a PR event, where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets while behind the curtains the governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action,” Thunberg said.
Referring to the climate conference as a “Global North greenwash festival” and “a two-week-long celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah“, Thunberg complained that world leaders did not agree to impose carbon targets so severe that they would drastically alter Western society.
“To stay below the targets set in the Paris agreements, and thereby minimising the risks of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control, we need immediate, drastic, annual emissions cuts, unlike anything the world has ever seen.
“And as we don’t have the technological solutions that alone will do anything even close to that, that means we will have to fundamentally change our society,” she claimed.”
Dream on princess. Oh, you are not the only one, I imagine!
“Climate activists demanded an end to capitalism, “black liberation”, and the abolition of police at a demonstration outside the United Nations COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland.
Gathering in George Square in central Glasgow on Saturday, an array of climate activists, including those from indigenous communities in South America, Asia, and Africa, came together to denounce Western imperialism and the alleged racism inherent in climate change.
Edinburgh University medical student and climate activist Mikaela Loach said that the UK government’s decision to go forward with oil exploration projects was “worse than hypocrisy”, saying that “it is violence”.
“These are last resort times,” she said demanding “audacious” action to confront the government.
“We must demand an end to capitalism. We must demand an end to white supremacy. We must demand black liberation. We must abolish prisons and the police,” she proclaimed.
“Our demands should not be toned down or palatable. They should worry, disrupt, and challenge the status quo,” Loach said.
Loach announced in May that she would be suing the British government’s Oil and Gas Authority in order to stop public subsidies for fossil fuel energy companies.
The climate activist alongside fellow campaigners, Scottish National Party (SNP) activist Kairin van Sweeden and Extinction Rebellion activist Jeremy Cox will appear before the High Court in December, where they will argue that the subsidies do not fall in line with Boris Johnson’s net-zero emissions pledge.
Researcher at the University of Strathclyde and climate activist Fraser Stewart also argued that the climate movement should not just be limited to environmental concerns, stating that “climate justice is social justice”.
“This is not just a crisis of climate or emissions, this is a crisis of justice, of inequality, of poverty, of racism, of classism, of workers’ rights, and women’s rights and every intersection in between,” Stewart explained.
Prior to the demonstration, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg declared that “climate justice also means social justice and that we leave no one behind. So we’re inviting everyone, especially the workers striking in Glasgow, to join us.”
During her speech, the Swedish activist said that Western nations owe a “historical debt” to the so-called Global South due to the legacy of colonialism.
Following the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain last year, climate activists have noticeably begun focusing on social justice issues in an apparent attempt to bolster their numbers.
A common refrain from Extinction Rebellion rallies over the past year has been a call for Britain to pay reparations for slavery, despite the UK becoming one of the first nations in the world to abolish the slave trade and having spent vast sums of money for the Royal Navy to stamp out slavery throughout the world.”
At least the climate change fanatics are coming clean about their communist anti-Western agenda, for all to see.