Several thousand high school students and students marched in Paris, according to the organizers, at an international strike day at the Greta Thunberg movement, Fridays for Future.
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As usual, young protesters for the climate have drowned their concern in fantasy and irony. “Mom, I’m drying like the planet”, “the degrees in addition, it’s better in bottle”: thousands of high school students and students have released their pancards in about fifty cities in France, Friday, March 25, in order to denounce a government that “chooses to accentuate ecological and social disasters” and ask “a sustainable society and just for all”.
They paraded on an international climate strike, at the call of Fridays for Future, the movement launched by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. A first for a year in the country – the strike will be continued on Saturday.
“It’s scary to say that it is now or never if we want to avoid the worst climatic disasters, but we do not do anything,” says Garance Bussy, 18, in the Parisian procession , which brought together 7,000 people, according to the organizers. “Especially after the Giec report [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] of February”, describing the dizzying consequences of an ever hot world, but “no one spoke” “abounds his comrade Leopoldine Louis. In the arms of these students in cultural mediation at the Sorbonne, a sign represents the Titanic with the inscription: “Jack, where is iceberg?”
There is then urgency, for these young people, to return to the center of the debate the climate, eclipsed by two years of pandemic, a presidential election centered on security issues and, now, the war in Ukraine.
All call policies out of “inaction”. “It’s worse. Emmanuel Macron does not do anything, he aggravated things, judge, for his part, Marie Chureau, 20, in Franco-German law in Paris Nanterre and one of Youth members for climate, which organizes the markets in France. It continues to multiply climatic projects while remaining less than ten years old if we want to limit global warming at 1.5 ° C. “Illustration of one of these “Climatic Bombs”, the Giant EACOP pipeline project, from Totalnergies, between Uganda and Tanzania, which denounced a group of young demonstrators, dressed in red combinations displaying “Climate Killers”.
” No more certainty about the future “
If the protesters despair of the balance sheet, judged very skinny, the five-year environment, they also have hope for the next one, a few days before the presidential election.
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