By Karla Adam
Glasgow, Scotland - Greta Thunberg (click here) may not have been officially invited to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, but on the first day of the conference, she was making her presence felt.
The Swedish teenager, who is something of a rock star for climate campaigners worldwide, is among thousands of activists descending on Glasgow for the 12-day U.N. Climate Change Conference, known as COP26, which kicked off Sunday. They are calling on world leaders to take bold action to prevent global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 Celsius above preindustrial levels....
Throngs of people have come to Glasgow to see and hear Greta Thurnberg. She was escorted by police so she wasn't crushed by the crowd.
She is the one true and innocent voice that spells out the purpose to this meeting called COP 26. She is the generation that will suffer the most from the ills of capitalism and political corruption.
Decades of facts and records in journals and government agencies spell out the one reason Greta Thurnberg sat down outside the Swedish Parliament in 2018 when she 15 years old. That is the age when most young people are looking to the future and their place in it. What she saw was dispair and hopelessness because the future had her trapped with greenhouse gases chaing Earth on a merciless path.
For decades, the world's governments have spents billions if not a trillion by now on learning the secrets of Earth and how to protect from natural disasters. This is not a natural disaster. If one wants to look at it that way, then realize this natural disaster is aided by human activity that produces and pollutes greenhouse gases.
She is not alone. The throngs of people that have gathered with her are in Glasgow to tell the world this is the last best chance of protecting the generations today and to come from deadly physics of excess greenhouse gases in the atmospheres of Earth.
This is the generation that has more right to be the policy makers at Glasgow than any other. They are correct and need to be heeded. This is the end of the fossil fuel use for energy. We can do better and we will do better.
Ms. Thurnberg is 18 years old and will be 19 on January 3, 2022. She needs to be a policy maker and should run for office to the Swedish Parliament. She and many other young adults need to take the power of government away from those that allowed the corruption in the belief that fossil fuels are necessary. They are not. Fossil fuels creat cash flow for Wall Street.
The world can do better. The world has to do better. The USA has a heavy lift as it has the largest amont of historical greenhouse gases in the world. It is time to sanction countries that fail to live up to the promises they made. The fossil fuels imported by the USA should be cut year after year to end the assault on Earth's climate.
Everyone should be proud of these young women. They are accomplished and correct. We need not know anything else.
