{"id":976710,"date":"2021-11-06T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976710"},"modified":"2021-11-06T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T17:13:50","slug":"watch-greta-thunberg-claims-west-owes-colonised-countries-a-historical-debt-to-drastically-cut-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-greta-thunberg-claims-west-owes-colonised-countries-a-historical-debt-to-drastically-cut-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Greta Thunberg Claims West Owes Colonised Countries a &#039;Historical Debt&#039; to Drastically Cut Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-greta-thunberg-claims-west-owes-colonised-countries-a-historical-debt-to-drastically-cut-emissions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=976710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has implied that the West owes a \u201chistorical debt\u201d to countries in the Global South to drastically reduce carbon emissions due to the legacy of colonialism.<\/p>\n<p>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: \u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCrises 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teen climate activist continued by implying that the climate crisis cannot be solved without confronting these \u201cinjustices\u201d, saying:&nbsp;\u201cIt is very naive of us to think that we can solve this crisis without addressing the root cause of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She then alluded to the West, using the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/impactofsocialsciences\/2021\/09\/28\/what-or-where-is-the-global-south-a-social-science-perspective\/\">increasingly popular<\/a> term \u2018Global North\u2019 to describe the developed world \u2014 compared to the \u2018Global South\u2019, which is also being used more frequently in recent years to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2021\/09\/29\/views-from-the-global-south-how-to-decolonise-the-climate-crisis\">discuss<\/a> climate change and \u2018decolonising\u2019 the alleged crisis \u2014 having a \u201chistorical debt\u201d to the countries it colonised, which she says are on the \u201cfront line\u201d of the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/kzindulka\/\">Kurt Zindulka<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thunberg said in footage taken by Breitbart London: \u201cBut this is not going to be spoke about inside the COP. It\u2019s just too uncomfortable. It\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old then accused the \u201cpeople in power\u201d of living in \u201ctheir bubble filled with their fantasies\u201d while \u201cthe world is literally burning, on fire, and while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time the issue of alleged manmade climate change have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/05\/watch-african-reparationist-calls-creation-pan-african-superstate-xr-rally\/\">intersected<\/a> with so-called social justice and historical colonialism, with both&nbsp;Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/09\/07\/extinction-rebellion-activists-call-for-reparations-during-walk-of-shame-protest-in-the-city-of-london\/\">rallying<\/a> together for a \u201creparations rebellion\u201d protest in September 2020, demanding recompense from large British institutions like the Lloyd\u2019s of London bank for their part in the slave trade.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18624770\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236367555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18624770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236367555.jpg\" alt=\"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Greta Thunberg (C) joins demonstrators during the Fridays For Future march on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the &quot;Fridays For Future&quot; youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th &quot;Conference of the Parties&quot; and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year&#039;s conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Peter Summers\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND \u2013 NOVEMBER 05: Greta Thunberg (C) joins demonstrators during the Fridays For Future march on November 5, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the \u201cFridays For Future\u201d youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th \u201cConference of the Parties\u201d and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year\u2019s conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Peter Summers\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, Thunberg also branded the United Nations COP26 climate conference an intentional \u201cfailure\u201d and a \u201cPR event\u201d, because world leaders would not agree to \u201cdrastic\u201d, society-altering emissions cuts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d Thunberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the climate conference as a \u201cGlobal North greenwash festival\u201d and \u201ca two-week-long celebration of business as usual and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/25\/greta-agrees-she-is-just-saying-blah-blah-blah-on-climate\/\">blah blah blah<\/a>\u201c, Thunberg complained that world leaders did not agree to impose carbon targets so severe that they would drastically alter Western society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as we don\u2019t have the technological solutions that alone will do anything even close to that, that means&nbsp;we will have to fundamentally change our society,\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18624802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"39\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1351512735.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18624802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1351512735.jpg\" alt=\"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 05: Climate activist, Greta Thunberg speaks on stage at George Square after joining demonstrators during the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 05, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Day Six of the 2021 climate summit in Glasgow will focus on youth and public empowerment. Outside the COP26 site, on the streets of Glasgow, the &quot;Fridays For Future&quot; youth climate movement hold a march to George Square in the centre of Glasgow where popular youth activists will address the crowd. The 26th &quot;Conference of the Parties&quot; and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year&#039;s conference is to commit countries to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND \u2013 NOVEMBER 05: Climate activist, Greta Thunberg speaks on stage at George Square after joining demonstrators during the Fridays For Future COP26 Scotland March on November 05, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Video footage was taken by Breitbart News Network\u2019s Kurt Zindulka in Glasgow, Scotland<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg has implied that the West owes a \u201chistorical debt\u201d to countries in the Global South to drastically reduce carbon emissions due to the legacy of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}