Thunberg should become political instead, criticizes youth party leader – NRK Urix – Foreign News & Documentaries

During a demonstration in Glasgow on Friday, Greta Thunberg called the COP26 climate summit a failure and “full of empty talk”.

Under the slogan “No more idiocy, such and such,” she accused politicians of treason. You want nothing more than what the hell they do there.

According to Thunberg, “They pretend to take our future seriously.” She said that change would not come from politicians, and that the climate summit would lead to nothing. Instead, activists must bring about change, “whether they like it or not.”

Greta thinks it spreads contempt for politicians

The wording makes Aftenposten’s political editor react. in a Chronicle Kjetil B. Alstadheim writes that Thunberg cultivates pure contempt for politicians:

“She risks leading them into something authoritarian, anti-democratic and downright dangerous. Her rhetoric is just the crap of calling for something beyond civil disobedience. And what she says is not true. Progress is being made even if it’s not big enough.”

Alstadheim fears the Swedish climate activist could contribute to polarization and division in a world in which many have a choice between meeting their basic needs now, or saving the climate sometime in the future.

“We need Greta Thunberg and activists pushing from the outside. There is no need for Greta Thunberg who only spreads contempt and despair,” Alstadheim wrote.

Climate Minister warns

It is wrong that nothing happens. Politics is helpful, climate minister Espin Barth Eide (Labour) protests.

The national commitments now announced have pushed the world to 1.8 degrees of global warming, not 2.7, as was the case before the Glasgow Climate Summit.

When you say that politics has no meaning, and that you can almost never meet, we are off on a somewhat dangerous path. I believe that a strong and reasonable commitment to achieving something should turn into political action – not to reject the whole idea of ​​democratic political change.

He asks Greta to become a politician

Lisa Nabo is the leader of the SSU, the youth party of the Swedish Social Democrats, the Swedes’ response to the AUF. On Friday, she criticized Thunberg for making demands without even coming up with solutions.

– Greta, you have said that the most important thing young people can do is become active. I do not agree with you. No solution to the climate crisis will be politically neutral. Naboo said the most important thing you can do as a young person is to get involved in politics and make sure you make the right decisions. SVT.

Nabo believes that young climate activists could have dictated what would happen in Sweden if they had only been involved in politics instead.

But here at home, sister group AUF wouldn’t vote the same way.

Leader Astrid Hoym believes that the task of the Social Democrats is to take over the social movements and listen to the environmental movement.

I have faith that politics will work, but it requires both activists and politicians who are impatient, says Hoym.

Put coffee in my throat

Nature and Youth Pioneer Therese Hogstemeyer told NRK that she put a little coffee in her throat when she heard Greta speaking outside of COP26.

It is certainly a new tone to talk about the belief that it is possible to persuade politicians to climate action.

There is no alternative to political solutions. Wei believes that only our peers are benefiting from increased polarization and that climate activists are seen as extremists. At the same time, the more I thought about it, the more I thought Greta’s suggestion was more understandable.

– Both the frustration that leads to it. But it can also be a tactic, a bit like a mistrust movement. Politicians may need to feel more strongly that something is at stake.

Politics does not sanctify anyone

Truls Gulowsen of the Nature Conservancy gives Alstadheim a partial right: Nothing happens. “Even though we are angry, it is still politics that should provide solutions,” he wrote on Twitter.

At the same time, he disagrees with the Swedish youth party SSU and Lisa Nåbo.

Activism is an important part of political processes. Many youth parties have been swallowed up by the party apparatus, and the most important thing is to win elections and not change the world.

Greta Thunberg cancels speech in Glasgow – while tens of thousands of protesters march against climate change across the UK, writes Sky News.

Thunberg was scheduled to speak on the sixth day of the United Nations climate summit.

It is not clear what is the background to the cancellation.