Visitor essay by Eric Worrall
In line with Greta wealthy international locations must pay reparations for the ancestral crime of bringing trade, roads, hospitals, colleges and luxury in previous age to the world.
WATCH: Greta Thunberg Claims West Owes Colonised International locations a ‘Historic Debt’ to Drastically Reduce Emissions
VICTORIA FRIEDMAN 6 Nov 2021
Teen local weather activist Greta Thunberg has implied that the West owes a “historic debt” to international locations within the World South to drastically cut back carbon emissions because of the legacy of colonialism.
Talking at a Fridays for Future youth protest in Glasgow, Scotland, on the fringes of the United Nations COP26 local weather convention, 18-year-old Thunberg stated: “The local weather and ecological disaster, after all, doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s straight tied to different crises and injustices that date again to colonialism and past.
“Crises primarily based on the concept some persons are price greater than others and subsequently have the fitting to use others and steal their land and sources.”
The teenager local weather activist continued by implying that the local weather disaster can’t be solved with out confronting these “injustices”, saying: “It is vitally naive of us to suppose that we are able to clear up this disaster with out addressing the basis reason for it.”
She then alluded to the West, utilizing the increasingly popular time period ‘World North’ to explain the developed world — in comparison with the ‘World South’, which can also be getting used extra often in recent times to discuss local weather change and ‘decolonising’ the alleged disaster — having a “historic debt” to the international locations it colonised, which she says are on the “entrance line” of the “local weather disaster”.
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Learn extra (contains video): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/06/teen-climate-activist-greta-thunberg-brands-cop26-failure-pr-exercise/
Greta, as a resident of a former colony of the “international south”, you might be welcome to ship me local weather reparations. I’m positive for those who contact Anthony we are able to determine how one can get the money to me.
I’m positive different WUWT readers have historic grievances which require reparations. Ensure you listing your grievances beneath, so Greta understands your want for local weather money.
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