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Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
In this episode we look into why climate protests matter. From Fridays for Future to the Sunrise Movement or protests from indigenous communities and legal actions against big oil companies — environmental movements can make a big difference. To be truly successful in combating climate change, they need as many people as possible to raise their voices with them.
In episode 4 of Climate Brief we go through the three most recent, successful environmental protests:
00:25 Atlantic Coast Pipeline
01:40 Shell case in the Netherlands
03:04 Fridays for Future in Germany
On March 19, strikers across the globe will demand "immediate, concrete, and ambitious action" over empty promises.
Excerpt from this story from Truthout:
Fridays for Future, the youth-led global group inspired by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, announced Wednesday that its next international day of climate strikes will occur on March 19 of this year with a demand for “immediate, concrete, and ambitious action” directed at world leaders who have in recent years talked seriously about the urgent need to address the planetary emergency but stalled dangerously by failing to make those words a reality.
“No more empty promises,” said the group in its announcement for global strikes that will take place on every continent, led by students and their allies who believe that the rapidly heating world is an existential threat to life as humanity has come to know it and the insufficient and voluntary emission reduction targets like the ones at the center of the Paris Climate agreement — which nations are not even on track to meet — are worthless unless here-and-now policies are put into action immediately to bring carbon and other greenhouse gas pollution under control.
"The world is getting hotter than Katie McGrath"
Atlas Marched (A poem on the youth-led rebellion)
They come in droves
Fierce, rumbling crowds
Young Atlases standing tall and proud
With the world on their backs and sweat on their brows
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Their futures are bright
As the fire in their eyes
And the flames of a thousand funeral pyres
As promises burn, and smoke rises higher
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They come and they see
And they say 'no more'
To the world, to the lives they are set to own
So they pick up their bags, their signs, their phones
And the Young Atlas Army marches on
See you all at the strike tomorrow if you’re able to make it! If not, try to make a post on social media showing your support. It’s desperately important for every single living thing on this planet that we slow down and stop climate change, and that won’t happen unless we all kick up an almighty fuss. What we are doing is working I promise you!! We just need to do a hell of a lot more 🌎💚🌎💚🌎
Thousands of people across Canada will be participating in a global climate strike Friday calling for action to address climate change, including Indigenous youth.
Thousands of people across Canada will be participating in a global climate strike Friday calling for action to address climate change.
In Montreal, 15 Indigenous and 15 non-Indigenous delegates at the front of the march will be holding a banner created by Anishinaabe artist Rachel Thusky Cloutier bearing the slogan "Au front pour la Mère Terre, To the front lines for Mother Earth."
Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner Autumn Peltier will be spending her 15th birthday at a climate change march through the streets of New York City.
Peltier, who is from the Wikwemikong First Nation, is also set to deliver a speech to the United Nations' Global Landscapes Forum on Saturday. It will be her second time addressing the UN.
“"I'm going to be talking about water protection on a spiritual and cultural level, coming from traditional knowledge of elders, talking about what we can do, solutions on how to protect clean water and keep what water we have now safe."“
Rosalie LaBillois, 22, is the co-chair of the Assembly of First Nations national youth council. She is striking Friday in support of the delegation of Indigenous youth from Quebec who will be leading Montreal's climate march.
LaBillois is Mi'kmaw from Eel River Bar First Nation, N.B. and comes from a family of fishermen. She said the livelihood of many Mi'kmaq depends on the ocean.
"My grandmother always said the ocean is our grocery store," she said.
"I'm hoping that this type of strike or engagement can continue to raise awareness of what's happening. I'm hoping it can mobilize our people to help wake them up."
Iotshatenawi Reed, 28, is Kanien'kehá:ka from Kahnawake, Que. For the past two and a half years she's been with Kahnawake's waste management department promoting backyard composting.
"The gases that are created in landfills are one of the causes of climate change," said Reed.
"It's very important to manage our waste in a proper way to avoid contamination in our land and our waterways."
She is attending the National Organics Recycling Conference taking place this week in Guelph, Ont. She said First Nations communities like her own need to be more concerned about climate change and can take simple steps to change daily habits.