environmental movements from all over the world, led by the student tide of Fridays For Future, will go out this Friday to the street to demand solutions to the climate crisis. This is how the last call for the global climate strike; a global protest that broke out in early 2019, at the hands of Greta Thunberg’s generation, and that after the break derived from the covid-19 pandemic try now recover the citizen clamor to protect the health of the planet and its inhabitants.
Under the motto ‘lives against capital‘ (‘People not profit’ in English), the strike denounces that the climate crisis is the direct responsibility ofa flawed socioeconomic model that urgently needs to be replaced”. “Rich nations are responsible for 92% of global emissions and the Richest 1% of the world’s population is responsible for twice the pollution produced by the poorest 50%”, denounces the manifesto launched by the platform of young environmentalists.
“We live in a world where economic profit is being prioritized before the well-being of people and the planet. And this is something unsustainable that we have to change as soon as possible”, exclaims Pere Joan Femenia Sastre, spokesperson for Youth for Climate Spain. “We know that fossil fuels wreak havoc on both the environment and people’s health, and yet we continue to dump them and fund their extraction. We also know that air pollution is a world-class problem and we don’t even This is how we managed to put a stop to it.We know both the problems and the solutions; It cannot be that we remain with our arms crossed“says the activist.
The #25M We took to the streets to claim our right to live in #Inhabitable Territories
👉 We want public policies that put life at the center #VidaContraCapital pic.twitter.com/Vf8IqVkWsW
— Youth For The Climate – Fridays For Future Spain. (@YouthXClimate) March 24, 2022
According to the organizers of this strike, this 25M there will be more than a thousand concentrations around the world for climate justice. In Spain there is a convened Twenty demonstrations, actions and events in different parts of the country. The protests have the support of a hundred Spanish environmental organizations. On Barcelonathe call is for 19.00 in Plaza de Catalunya. On Madridat the same time the appeal is to the Plaza de Cibeles. Actions are also called in Majorca, Cadiz, Tarragona, Valencia, Sevilla, Granada, Salamanca, Bilbao, Ourense, Malaga and Oviedo.
international call
“The strength of this strike is that It is an international call, because it shows that the fight against climate change has to be something on a global scale. It is useless for a city or a country to reduce its emissions if the others continue to pollute as they have done up to now”, he comments. Miquel Vallmitjana, spokesperson for Ecologists in Action. “We went out to the street denounce, once again, the inaction against the climate crisis. The scientific community warns us that the climate crisis is already causing damage and suffering throughout the world and that for every tenth of a degree that the temperature rises, the consequences will be more serious. We need to apply measures as soon as possible to advance stop this crisis“, argues the ecologist.
According to Femenia Sastre, the fight against the climate crisis translates into actions on a small and large scale. “The world has to drastically reduce its emissions and decarbonise its economy. But beyond these global actions, we also need fight energy poverty in our cities, guarantee that citizens breathe clean air and promote an ecological transition that leaves no one behind”, comments the spokesperson for Youth for Climate.
📢 ON MARCH 25TH, WE WILL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE REPARATIONS AND JUSTICE!📢
Join us for the Global Climate Strike as we demand policymakers and world leaders to prioritize #PeopleNotProfit!
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Design made by: @namevdelang pic.twitter.com/7RQPIXxhbP— Fridays For Future (@Fridays4future) January 25, 2022
One of the slogans of this Friday’s strike, in fact, is precisely this cry for climate justice. And of the importance of helping the populations most affected by the advance of this crisis. “The poorest communities on the planetindigenous peoples and marginalized populations are being disproportionately affected by the effects of the climate crisis. They are the ones that have contributed the least to the problem and the ones that are suffering the most from its consequences,” denounces the call for this protest. “We need to give them resources. And not as a gesture of solidarity, but for justice,” the manifesto states.
The environmental strike this Friday aims to flood the streets of the whole world on the eve of world climate day and the already famous ‘Earth Hour’, the symbolic campaign that every year makes the world turn off the lights for a few minutes to raise awareness about the need to care for the environment. “The climate crisis is the greatest crisis that humanity has faced. We must explain very clearly the magnitude of the problem and make people understand the danger it poses. Only in this way will we be able to involve the whole world towards a more sustainable model change“, reflects Vallmitjana.”We are still in time to avoid the worst climate scenariosbut we have to act now,” says the activist.
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