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While many parts of the world are experiencing serious disasters such as droughts, floods, and fires, protests against fossil fuels are spreading.
It spread all over the world, from the United States to Europe and Africa, and even water cannons were used to occupy highways.
Reporter Kim Seon-hee reports.
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The center of downtown Berlin, Germany is crowded with tens of thousands of protesters.
With one voice, they demanded an end to the use of fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
He urged the government to take action, saying that dozens of natural disasters that occurred this year, including major floods in Libya, hurricanes in the United States, and torrential rains in India, were caused by fossil fuels.
[다르야 소투덱 / 기후 활동가 : 연방 정부는 기후 위기에 너무 적은 노력을 기울이고 있고 동시에 사람들을 보호하고 지원하는 데도 너무 노력을 하지 않고 있습니다.]
Dutch protesters occupied the highway and even used police water cannons.
They shouted slogans despite the strong current and raised their voices to stop using fossil fuels.
The African region took out protests with even greater desperation.
Countries on the African continent, with a population of 1.3 billion, are said to be contributing much less to the cause of the climate crisis than developed countries, but are bearing the brunt of the damage.
[올라메디 토요조 / 시위대 : 화석연료 에너지에 의존하고 있지만 그것은 우리를 죽이고 있어요, 재생에너지를 사용하면 모두가 좋을 거에요.]
In New York, USA, tens of thousands of protesters marched calling for an end to fossil fuels.
Protesters were further infuriated by the forest fire smoke and record-breaking heat waves that blanketed New York City this summer.
[엠마 브레타 / 기후 활동가 : 바이든 대통령이 청년 표를 얻고 선거에서 승리하려면 화석연료 사용을 중단해야 합니다.]
Amid catastrophic floods, droughts, and large-scale fires around the world, protests are intensifying.
However, the United States and China, the two largest greenhouse gas emitters, are being criticized for their passive response, such as missing the climate goal summit speech.
This is YTN Kim Seon-hee.
Video editing: Lim Hyeon-cheol
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2023-09-22 19:30:00
