Today is the fourth global climate strike
Environment — di Lorenzo Brenna
Millions of people are flooding the streets around the world to ask governments, once again, to act to reduce CO2 emissions.
Today is the fourth global climate strike
Millions of people are flooding the streets around the world to ask governments, once again, to act to reduce CO2 emissions.
The British dictionary Collins named "climate strike" its word of 2019, while a few days ago the Oxford English Dictionary awarded this title to the word "climate emergency", by virtue of the exponential increase in its use over the past year.
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These are unequivocal signs of how, for roughly the past year, climate change and the threat it poses to living species have moved to the centre of public debate as never before. The credit, let us not forget, goes to Greta Thunberg and her solitary, stubborn climate strikes, which gave rise, in a symbolic form of spontaneous parthenogenesis, to the Fridays for Future movement.
📣 -4 al QUARTO SCIOPERO GLOBALE PER IL CLIMA 🌍
“Non c’è più tempo da perdere”. See you in the streets!
Info qui: fridaysforfutureitalia.it/29-11-sciopero…
#WeAreUnstoppable
#UniteBehindTheScience
#GlobalStrike
#29Novembre
#FridaysForFuture
“Non c’è più tempo da perdere”. See you in the streets!
Info qui: fridaysforfutureitalia.it/29-11-sciopero…
#WeAreUnstoppable
#UniteBehindTheScience
#GlobalStrike
#29Novembre
#FridaysForFuture
CO2 emergency
And yet, despite the great prominence given to the ongoing climate crisis, CO2 emissions show no sign of decreasing — indeed, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide are rising, according to the World Meteorological Organization. For this reason, Fridays for Future has organised the fourth global climate strike, taking place today, Friday 29 November.
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- Global climate strike: the historic 24 May of Fridays for Future
- How the third global climate strike went: emotions and numbers
Back on the streets
The 29 November strike follows those of 15 March, 24 May and the one held during Climate Action Week, between 20 and 27 September 2019. Those demonstrations involved millions of people in over 130 countries around the world. The date of 29 November, Fridays for Future Italia explained in a press release, "was chosen because it falls exactly one week before Cop25, the UN conference on climate change to be held from 2 to 13 December in Madrid". The organisers of the strike aim to put pressure on the political leaders attending the conference to adopt effective measures to counter environmental devastation.
Researchers on strike
PhD students and Italian researchers will also join the strike: "once again we will be present in the streets in this epochal battle for humanity," reads a press release from the Associazione dottorandi e dottori di ricerca in Italia, "all of this is happening while Venice is experiencing one of the most devastating weather events in its recent history, exacerbated, beyond the mismanagement of the territory, by the very effects of the climate crisis."
Read also: Greta Thunberg, one year since the first climate strike: more than just Fridays for Future
The demonstrators, who across the world are bringing life and colour to streets and squares, are calling loudly for, fundamentally, one thing: that their right to a dignified future be recognised.