'Blah blah blah' Climate Change Conference: 2 Weeks Festival of Politicians...?

Sindujaa D N

At a rally in Milan, italy in September, Greta Thunberg called the statements of british Prime minister Boris Johnson and India's narendra modi on climate change is "empty, blah, blah".

Thunberg, the Swedish star of the climate movement, also repeated the word at a youth rally in Glasgow on Friday. The rally erupted in applause and slogans when he said that COP-28 was a "blah-blah-blah two-week festival of politicians, with nothing to do with climate change".

This new generation of environmentally conscious boys and girls has seen in newspaper reports that leaders, officials, and businessmen are landing at Glasgow and Edinburgh airports one after another in private and chartered jets to attend the conference. 

They are considering it a hoax. The word was written on some placards during environmentalists' demonstrations in Glasgow and other cities around the world. 


One more word and slogan is being uttered about the climate conference - 'greenwash', which means people are being misled by suppressing the basic truth.

There are blah-blah-blah posters all over the city. This means that in the internal discussions of the conference, many people do not have confidence in the big promises that the leaders of different countries are making to reduce the global temperature.

Why are young people on the streets in the climate movement?

'Greenwash' is becoming a popular slogan in the environmental movement - meaning to mislead people by suppressing the truth.

In the run-up to the climate conference, two major research reports on carbon emissions from the two UN agencies have been published, making it clear that the agreement reached in paris six years ago to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius in this century is not working.


The target set by the countries this year to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 will not only reduce emissions but will continue to increase until 2030.


Most importantly, there is scepticism among scientists as to whether the countries, especially the major emitters, will keep their promises. The UN itself is issuing one report after another indirectly telling the member countries not to talk.


Breaking the promise of rich countries

People from underdeveloped countries who come to the conference - be they government representatives or observers - openly say in various forums and press conferences that the industrialized countries are not keeping their promises.


According to them, a few rich countries have put the rest of the world in danger by burning coal, oil, and gas indiscriminately for a long time. Now it is procrastinating with specific promises of help.


This is confusing. These technologies are not there yet. That means they will continue to emit for a long time." "It's a hoax,".


So no matter how promising the Glasgow Conference announcement on friday may be, Greta Thunberg will probably tweet right away - 'Here's another blah blah blah session.'









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