The Boomers Inside The Climate Summit, And The Zoomers Protesting Outside
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Monday, November 1st. |
| 0:15.1 | Parents and grandparents of the world, take note this morning. Your kids and grandkids may be angrier about the climate |
| 0:22.2 | you're leaving them than you are, and then you realize. You're probably hearing that the COP 26th |
| 0:28.0 | Climate Summit with President Biden and other world leaders is taking place today in Glasgow, Scotland, |
| 0:33.1 | right? Cop, by the way, in case you're hearing this term and you don't know what it means, |
| 0:37.7 | cop stands for Conference of the Parties of the Paris Climate Accords of 2015. |
| 0:43.5 | It's their 26th meeting, so COP 26. |
| 0:47.1 | What you may not be hearing about is protests by most of the young people that are taking place alongside COP 26. |
| 0:56.4 | For example, yesterday at the official opening speech by COP 26 president, Alak Sharma, who is a member of the British Parliament, |
| 1:02.6 | he got interrupted by a group of young protesters accusing him of spouting words without actions |
| 1:08.6 | to back them up. Listen carefully. |
| 1:10.6 | Thank you. outing words without actions to back them up. Listen carefully. need climate justice. What did we want? Climate justice! |
| 1:28.9 | No! |
| 1:30.5 | What did we want? |
| 1:31.7 | Lawman justice! |
| 1:33.5 | No! |
| 1:39.3 | So there was that at the opening of COP 26 yesterday as one example. |
| 1:42.8 | And there was 18-year-old Greta Toonberg on the BBC. |
| 1:46.8 | She's, of course, most well-known for giving voice to generational anger at what her peers are being handed to solve themselves. |
| 1:50.9 | Greta was asked if some of the young activist disruption tactics are worth it, |
| 1:55.8 | given the criticism that those tactics draw. |
| 1:59.0 | I think, as long as, of course, to make clear, |
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