(The reason I wrote this piece about activism and despair last week was manifest by Delger Erdenesanaa at Inside Climate News in his piece, At COP26, Youth Activists From Around the World Call Out Decades of Delay.) The final declaration of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow has yet to be approved. But unless a big surprise happens in the next few days, that document will move the world inches forward in combatting the climate crisis when we need to move miles.  Not that the summit has been without strong warnings about the impacts of inadequate action. Those have come from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, from leaders ranging from Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and former President Barack Obama to European Commission President Ursula von de Leyen, and from Indigenous protesters like Ponca elder Casey Camp-Horinek and climate activists like Kenyan Green Generation Initiative founder Elizabeth Wathuti.  Read more