Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg called the United Nations climate summit (COP27) out for being held in Egypt where basic human rights are not respected.. Greta Thunberg Climate Book .“[COP27 is] held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights,” said Thunberg Sunday at the London Literature Festival while promoting her new book The Climate Book..Thunberg said COP27 is an opportunity for “people in power... to greenwashing, lying, and cheating.”.At COP26 last year, Thunberg went to the protests in Glasgow, but said she will not attend COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh starting November 6. .“The space for civil society is going to be extremely limited,” said Thunberg. .“It’s important to leave space for those who need to be there. It will be difficult for activists to make their voices heard.”.In Egypt, public demonstrations are banned, and there are limited accreditation and attendance badges for activists..Thunberg said there is a “sustainability crisis” as the “crisis of information [is] not getting through” at her Sunday event..The book includes more than 100 climate experts explaining different parts of climate change, including Canadian author Margaret Atwood and leading climate scientists Katharine Hayhoe and Michael Mann.. Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers Soup .At 15, Thunberg staged school strikes over climate change in her home country of Sweden..Thunberg became the public face of the youth climate activist movement..“I wanted it [the book] to be educational, which is a bit ironic since my thing is school strikes,” said Thunberg..When asked about the recent protests by Just Stop Oil activists who threw soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ at London’s National Gallery, Thunberg defended the activists..“People are trying to find new methods because we realize what we have been doing up until now has not done the trick. It’s only reasonable to expect these kinds of different actions,” said Thunberg.
