Climate and World Change Proposal

[David Lockmiller]

At COP26, 100,000 march for climate justice
Washington Post 11/7/2021

On Thursday, the International Energy Agency released an analysis suggesting that the commitments made during the first week of the COP26 summit put the planet on a path to 1.8 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit), a dramatic shift from a U.N. projection published just two weeks earlier.

Organizers say 100,000 people marched through Glasgow, despite dreary, wet weather that Scots call “dreich.”

Environmental organizations, national trade unions, Indigenous leaders from the Amazon, Black Lives Matter protesters and Scottish independence groups were among those participating.

Echoing Fridays for Future activist Greta Thunberg’s criticism that U.N. negotiations were nothing more than 'blah blah blah," speakers at the Glasgow Green on Saturday rally voiced skepticism — if not outright disgust — toward the proceedings at COP26.