00:00When I listen to Boris Johnson, when I listen to people like Joe Biden, when I listen even
00:06more to Emmanuel Macron, all I can think of is how condescending you are.
00:12Glasgow was the UK's second most important city. Beautiful buildings, beautiful streets,
00:19a gorgeous city. When I see cities like this, I think also about the other side of it.
00:25There's a phrase from Walter Benjamin, every monument of civilization is also a monument
00:31of barbarism. I think of the famines in Bengal, the jute workers in Bengal sending jute to Dundee
00:39through the Glasgow port. I think of human beings from Africa enslaved and brought from Ghana to
00:47the New World and all those prophets getting sucked into cities like London and Glasgow.
00:54Between 1765 and 1938, the British Isles stole 45 trillion pounds from India, 45
01:04trillion sterling from India. We never got paid for that. When the British left India,
01:09when we threw the British out, our literacy rate was 13%, so much for several hundred years of
01:16so-called civilization. Meanwhile, our landscapes were destroyed. Coal was foisted on India.
01:23You foisted coal on us. You were the ones that came and made us coal dependent. Then you left
01:31and now you dare to condescend to us. When I listen to Boris Johnson, when I listen to people
01:37like Joe Biden, when I listen even more to Emmanuel Macron, all I can think of is how
01:43condescending you are. You condescended to us 400 years ago, you condescended to us 300 years ago,
01:50you condescended to us 200 years ago, you condescended to us 100 years ago,
01:55you're condescending to us today. You only know condescension because for you,
02:01colonialism isn't something that happened in the past and we defeated you. It's not that.
02:08For you, colonialism is a permanent condition and that permanent condition happens in two ways.
02:15There's the permanent condition of the colonial mentality. You want to lecture us. You want to
02:21tell us that we are responsible for all the problems because you'll never accept that you're
02:26the one principally to blame. You signed the Rio formula in 1992 on common and differentiated
02:33responsibilities. You like the common part. You like the common part. You like to say we're all
02:39in this together and so on. We're not in this together. The United States, 4-5% of the world's
02:45population still uses 25% of the world's resources. You outsource production to China and then you say
02:52China is the carbon polluter. China's producing your buckets. China's producing your nuts and
02:57bolts. China's producing your phones. Try to produce it in your own countries and see your
03:02carbon emissions rise. You love lecturing us because you have a colonial mentality.
03:07Then there are colonial structures and institutions. You lend us money and every time you
03:12lend us money, which is our money, which is our money. Every time the International Monetary Fund
03:18comes to our societies and they tell us, here's the money we are giving you. We are giving you? No,
03:23it's our money. You give us our money back as debt and then you lecture us about how we should live.
03:30Climate justice movement is a movement that says we're worried about our future. What future?
03:37What future? Children in the African continent, in Asia, in Latin America, they don't have a future.
03:43They don't have a present. They're not worried about the future. They're worried about their
03:47present. Your slogan is we're worried about the future. What future? That's a middle-class bourgeois
03:55Western slogan. You got to be worried about now. 2.7 billion people can't eat now and you're
04:03telling people reduce your consumption. How does this sound to a child who hasn't eaten in days?
04:09You got a clue into this, guys. You got a clue into this. Otherwise,
04:14this movement will have no legs in the third world.
