Greta Thunberg shouts ‘you can shove your climate crisis up your a**’ at protest

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Greta Thunberg is certainly enjoying her time in Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26.

On Monday, November 1, the teenage climate change activist joined a crowd of protesters as she chanted: "You can shove your climate crisis up your a**."

Thunberg was one of the hundreds of activists present in Festival Park demonstrating against global leaders' failure to act in the midst of a climate crisis.

The moment quickly went viral on Twitter, and was retweeted by Thunberg with the caption: "When in Scotland..."

People were naturally tickled by Thunberg's chanting, and joked about her now-ties to Scottish culture.

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One Twitter user wrote: "Glad to see you're settling in," while another asserted: "A bottle of bucky and an iron bru an she's in [sic].''

Thunberg was one of the activists speaking at the Fridays for Future meeting of young activists at Festival park, near the COP26 campus.

She asserted that change would not be coming from the leaders and politicians at the summit, but rather from individuals who put themselves forward.

"This COP26 is so far just like the previous COPs and that has led us nowhere. They have led us nowhere," Thunberg said.

"Inside COP there are just politicians and people in power pretending to take our future seriously, pretending to take the present seriously of the people who are being affected already today by the climate crisis."

"Change is not going to come from inside there. That is not leadership - this is leadership," she added, before leading cries of "climate justice," and "no more blah, blah, blah".

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"We're sick and tired of it and we're going to make the change whether they like it or not," Thunberg concluded.

Earlier this week, the heads of 120 arrived in Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, US President Joe Biden, and French President Emmanuel Macron.

A further 25,000 delegates will be in attendance at the two-week climate conference (held between October 31 and November 12), which is taking place in the UN-controlled blue zone on the north side of Scotland's River Clyde.

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