Excerpt: Thank you everyone for coming, what a great day! It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure, it should be obvious that we cannot solve a crisis with the same methods that got us into it in the first place. And more and more people are starting to realize this. Many are starting to ask themselves what will it take for the people in power to wake up? But let's be clear, they are already awake. They know exactly what they are doing, they know exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to maintain business as usual. The leaders are not doing nothing, they are actively creating loopholes and shaping frameworks to benefit themselves and to continue profiting from this destructive system. This is an active choice by the leaders to continue to let the exploitation of people and nature and the destruction of present and future living conditions to take place.The COP has turned into a PR event where leaders are giving beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while behind the curtains the governments of the Global North countries are still refusing to take any drastic climate action.It seems like their main goal is to continue to fight for the status quo and COP26 has been named the most exclusionary COP ever. This is no longer a climate conference, this is now a Global North Greenwash Festival.A two-week long celebration of business as usual and blah blah blah.The most affected people in the most affected areas still remain unheard. And the voices of future generations are drowning in their green washed and empty words and promises. But the facts do not lie and we know that our emperors are naked. To stay below the target set in the Paris Agreement and thereby minimizing the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control, we need immediate drastic annual emission cuts unlike anything the world has ever seen. And as we don't have the technological solutions that alone will do anything even close to that, that means we will have to fundamentally change our society. And this is the uncomfortable result of our leaders repeated failure to address this crisis. At the current emissions rates our remaining CO2 budgets to give us the best chances of staying below 1.5 degrees celsius will be gone within the end of this decade. And the climate and ecological crisis of course doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is directly tied to other crises and injustices that date back to colonialism and beyond. Crises based on the idea that some people are worth more than others and therefore have the right to steal others, that to exploit others and to steal their land and resources. And it is very naive of us to think that we could solve this crisis without addressing the root cause of it. But this is not going to be spoken about inside the COP it's just too uncomfortable. It's much easier for them to simply ignore the historical depth that the countries of the Global North have towards the most affected people and areas. And the question we must now ask ourselves is, what is it that we are fighting for? Are we fighting to save ourselves and the living planet or are we fighting to maintain business as usual? Our leaders say that we can have both but the harsh truth is that that is not possible in practice. The people in power can continue to live in their bubble, filled with their fantasies like eternal growth on a finite planet, and technological solutions that will suddenly appear seemingly out of nowhere and will erase all of these crises just like that. All this while the world is literally burning on fire. And while the people living on the front lines are still bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. They can continue to ignore the consequences of their inaction but history will judge them poorly and we will not accept it.We don't need any more distant, non-binding pledges. We don't need any more empty promises. We don't need any more commitments that are full of loopholes and incomplete statistics and that ignore the historical emissions and climate justice. Yet, that is all that we are getting and no, that is not radical to say. Just look at their track record, they have had 26 COPs, they have had decades of blah blah blah and where has that led us? Over 50 percent of all our CO2 emissions have occurred since 1990 and about a third since 2005. All this while the media is reporting on what people in power say that they are going to do, rather than what they actually do. Time and time again the media fails to hold the people in power responsible for their action and inaction, as they, as they continue to expand fossil fuel infrastructure, opening up new coal mines coal power plants, granting new oil licenses and still refusing to do even the bare minimum, like delivering, delivering on the long promised climate finance for loss and damage to the most vulnerable and least responsible countries. This is shameful! Some people say that we are being too radical. But, but the truth is that they are the ones who are radical. Fighting to save our life supporting systems isn't radical at all. Believing that our civilization as we know it can survive a 2.7 degree or a 3 degree hotter world on the other hand, is not only extremely radical, it's pure madness! Out here we speak the truth. The people in power are obviously scared of the truth. Yet, no matter how hard they try, they cannot escape from it. They cannot ignore the scientific consensus and above all they cannot ignore us the people, including their own children. They cannot ignore our screams as we reclaim our power, we are tired of their blah blah blah. Our leaders are not leading. This is what leadership looks like! Thank you for showing up and see you tomorrow again at the march!

Narrative: Talking about the problemof climate change is not helping to solve it.
Narrative type: Frame
Notes: Have taken the frames listed in Table 1 and crafted a narrative from them
Source paper: Ponton & Raimo (2024)

Narrative: Generations are not all affected equally by climate change
Narrative type: Frame
Notes: Have taken the frames listed in Table 1 and crafted a narrative from them
Source paper: Ponton & Raimo (2024)