'Hypocrites and greenwash': Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis
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Hypocrites and greenwash: Greta Thunberg blasts leaders over climate crisis
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Greta Thunberg has blasted politicians as hypocrites and international climate summits as empty words and greenwash. Until humanity admits it has failed to tackle the climate crisis and begins treating it as an emergency like the coronavirus pandemic, society will be unable to stop global heating, she said.
In an interview with the Guardian, Thunberg said leaders were happy to set targets for decades into the future, but flinched when immediate action to cut emissions was needed. She said there was not a politician on the planet promising the climate action required: If only, said the teenager, who will turn 18 in January.
So the first thing we need to do is understand we are in an emergency [and] admit the fact that we have failed humanity collectively has failed because you cant solve a crisis that you dont understand, Thunberg said.
The climate crisis is just one symptom of a much larger crisis, [including] the loss of biodiversity, the loss of fertile soil but also including inequality and threats to democracy, she said. These are symptoms that we are not living sustainably: we have reached the end of the road.