The UN world climate summit is currently taking place in Glasgow.
Environmental activists demand decisive action.
But there are also exuberant scenes.
Glasgow - "We come from the blue mountains ..." A repositioned version of this old folk song was used by the environmental movement Fridays For Future.
The activists in Glasgow thus vented their frustration at the inadequate fight of the heads of government against the climate crisis during the UN world climate summit.
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg (M) speaks into a microphone while she and other activists take part in a demonstration on the sidelines of the UN climate summit COP26 in Glasgow.
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The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was not officially invited, but still shows a strong presence at COP26.
“No more blah blah,” she urged the politicians.
They would “only pretend that they take our future seriously,” said the 18-year-old in an address.
The British broadcaster BBC, among others, has published video recordings of it.
"We're sick of it and we're going to make the change whether they like it or not," she added.
Scandal on the sidelines of the UN climate conference - Greta: "Pushing the climate crisis into the A ..."
The said folk song rewrote the climate activists - and sang “You can shove your climate crisis up your ass”. Excerpts from it are circulating on social media. In the video, which among other things shows the British daily newspaper
The Telegraph
on its YouTube channel, you can see the group of mostly young people standing together behind a protest banner, in the middle of Thunberg, and bursting out laughing before the young Swede picks up the microphone and begins to sing. The crowd joins in.
Only recently, the climate activist was noticed by a singing interlude.
In doing so, she showed herself from a side that was previously hardly known about her.
She sang and danced exuberantly to the 80s hit "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley.
She told the
Swedish daily
Aftonbladet
: "We are ultimately just teenagers who fool around with each other, not just the angry children that the media often portray us as."
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