Embora este importante fenómeno não tenha tido qualquer tipo
de atenção na cobertura mediática Portuguesa esta é a quarta vez no período de
dois meses que se organisa uma Marcha pelo Clima.
Tudo começou com um movimento de alunos das escolas seguindo
o apelo e o exemplo de Greta Thunberg uma rapariga de 16 anos que lançou um
movimento de Greve Escolar pelo Futuro do Planeta e que entretanto estendeu a
sua presença a Davos. Ontem Domingo participaram 70.000 pessoas na Marcha pelo
Clima. Um conjunto de Adultos e de Jovens . "Não há Planeta B !!".
OVOODOCORVO
Some 70,000 Brussels protesters demand action on climate
By RAF CASERT
yesterday
A protestor holds a placard as he marches during a Rise for
the Climate demonstration in Brussels, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Geert
Vanden Wijngaert)
BRUSSELS (AP) — At least 70,000 people braved cold and rain
in Brussels on Sunday to demand the Belgian government and the European Union
increase their efforts to fight climate change, the Belgian capital’s fourth
climate rally in two months to attract at least 10,000 participants.
The event was described as Belgium’s biggest climate march
ever, with police estimating slightly bigger crowds than a similar
demonstration last month. Trains from across the nation were so clogged that
thousands of people didn’t make the march in time.
Some 35,000 students in Belgium skipped classes Thursday to
take their demands for urgent action to prevent global warming to the streets.
“Young people have set a good example,” protester Henny
Claassen said amid raised banners urging better renewable energy use and
improved air quality. “This is for our children, for our grandchildren, and to
send a message to politicians.”
Even though the direct impact on Belgian politics was likely
to be small since the country currently is led by a caretaker government, the
demonstrations have pushed the issue of climate change up the agenda as parties
prepare for national and European Union elections in May.
The march ended at the headquarters of the European Union.
The 28-nation bloc has been at the vanguard of global efforts to counter
climate change but still came in for the protesters’ criticism.
“Society as a whole could do a lot more because they’re
saying ‘Yes, we’re doing a lot,’ but they’re doing not that much. They could do
a lot more,” demonstrator Pieter Van Der Donckt said.
Citizen activism on climate change Sunday was not limited to
Belgium.
Thousands of people made human chains or held other climate
events around France.
In Paris, there was a debate inspired by a recent petition
for legal action to force the government to set more ambitious goals for
reducing carbon emissions that create global warming.
President Emmanuel Macron sees himself as a climate
crusader, but suffered a serious setback when fuel tax increases meant to help
wean France off fossil fuels backfired dramatically, unleashing the yellow vest
protests now in their third month.
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Associated Press writers Daniela Berretta in Brussels and
Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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