Porque é que este importante movimento desenvolvido por
aqueles que terão que viver num Futuro determinado pelo Aquecimento Global e as
Alteracões Climáticas ainda não foi noticiado em Portugal !? O movimento
inspirado em Greta Thunberg, uma
rapariga Sueca de 16 anos, que entretanto deixou uma mensagem directa em Davos …
OVOODOCORVO
BELGIUM
Thousands of Belgian students are skipping class to protest
against climate change | #TheCube
Carrying colourful signs wth slogans in English, French, and
Dutch, over 30,000 students streamed through the streets of Brussels on
Thursday for the third consecutive week of protests against climate change.
The demonstrations were inspired by the actions of Swedish
climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, who took a stand against global warming in
August 2018 and has since then become a symbol of youth engagement on
environmental issues.
Her actions have trickled down inspiring youth all over
Europe to take to the streets: last Friday, more than 60,000 students across
the continent, with large groups convening in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland,
protested calling for more government action to slow down climate change.
Thunberg herself was expected to show up for a student march
on Friday in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders, entrepreneurs, and
business people are gathered for the 2019 edition of the World Economic Forum.
The 16-year-old activist travelled to Switzerland by train to hammer home her
environmentalist message, before she addressed the elite in Davos via video
message.
“Some people — some companies and decision-makers in
particular — have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to
continue making unimaginable amounts of money,” Thunberg said. She then made an
appeal to World Economic Forum attendees: "I ask you to stand on the right
side of history. I ask you to pledge to do everything in your power to push
your own business or government in line with a 1.5C world."
As Greta threw down the gauntlet in Davos, sleeping in a
tent among other forms of protest, young people in Belgiam also decided to
challenge institutions by skipping school to attend a march for the climate in
Brussels.
In October 2018, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change warned that world leaders have only 12 years left to take urgent and
unprecedented action in order to keep global temperatures to a maximum of 1.5C
above pre-industrial levels. A steeper increase in temperature would mean extreme
heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people across the globe as well as
increased risks of droughts and floods.
"We want the government to take action and create a
cleaner world. We're showing the big politicians in Belgium that we're afraid
for our future and that we're going to have to deal with all the problems
climate change brings along", a young Belgian student called Oona told
Euronews after taking part in the Brussels march.
"It's not about paying for our plastic bags or changing
our toothbrushes to wooden ones: we need them to realize that the world is
falling apart and there won't be anything left if we keep producing, eating
meat, cutting down trees, driving cars at this speed", Oona added.
"We have one message: clean the planet for the
future!" Cody Corthouts, 19, told The Cube. Fleur, 17, who also marched
through the streets of Brussels and past the European Parliament, was positive
about the success that the event has had: "I'm really happy that the
Belgian youth took the initiative on this matter."
Some young protesters carried witty placards with slogans
like "We're hotter than the climate" and "Change the system, not
the climate". Others presented consequences of rising global temperatures:
"Without Earth, there's going to be no more beer," one sign read.
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