Well, of course it’s being held in a great vacation spot: all the big wigs and attendees wouldn’t bother going if it was held in a boring spot
Greta Thunberg: COP27 an opportunity for “greenwashing, lying and cheating”
Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being “held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.”
Speaking at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre where she was promoting her new book, “The Climate Book”, 19-year-old Thunberg dismissed the looming climate summit, known as COP27, as an opportunity for “people in power… to [use] greenwashing, lying and cheating.”
While Thunberg did attend protests in Glasgow last year for COP26, she said she won’t attend COP27, scheduled to be held from Nov. 6 to Nov. 18 in Sharm El Sheikh.
“The space for civil society is going to be extremely limited,” she said. “It’s important to leave space for those who need to be there. It will be difficult for activists to make their voices heard.”
Public demonstration is effectively banned in Egypt and limits on accreditation and attendance badges for activists have been a point of contention at previous U.N. climate summits.
Well, that’s one reason for not going. I would have been more impressed if she had mentioned the 10K+ who will take long, fossil fueled trips to Egypt, quite a few of them on private jets. Or that the climate cult elites simply want to impose their views on the plebes in what we could call Elitist Authoritarianism.
