Earth Strike
As Earth Strike (German: strike the earth ) were large demonstrations which have in the context of Fridays-for-Future world movement took place on September 27 of 2019. It was a grassroots movement to quickly take action against the climate catastrophe . Millions of people took part in several thousand manifestations, they formed the finale of the international climate protection week Week for Future .
The project is supported by prominent representatives of civil society, including Greta Thunberg , Noam Chomsky , Naomi Klein , David Graeber and Natalie Wynn , and numerous environmental protection organizations. For the first time in human history, demonstrations on one and the same cause took place simultaneously on all continents.
International demands
The International Earth Strike Movement has formulated the following demands:
- Immediate start of global cooperation between world market leaders and companies in order to reverse the damage to the earth's climate according to IPCC forecasts through clear and binding agreements, in particular
- Halve net carbon dioxide emissions by 2030
- Reduce net emissions to zero by 2050
- International, clear and binding commitments to curb the destruction of rainforests and other natural habitats.
- International, clear and binding agreements to hold companies accountable for the greenhouse gases they generate .
organizer
Excerpt from the main organizers of the strike week:
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places
Actions took place in more than 150 countries on September 20, 2019, including Australia, France, Great Britain, India, Kenya, Pakistan and Thailand. A total of 6,383 actions took place in 170 countries during the strike week. This is what the climate activist Greta Thunberg reported at the final rally in Montréal , which was attended by half a million people. "If the people in power don't take their responsibility, we will," announced Thunberg.
In German-speaking countries
1.4 million people demonstrated on September 20, 2019 in all major German cities at the start of the strike week. The largest gatherings took place in Berlin and Hamburg with 270,000 and 100,000 participants respectively (according to the organizers), followed by Freiburg i. B., Munich, Bremen, Hanover, Münster and Stuttgart, Dresden, Kiel, Dortmund and Frankfurt / Main, Darmstadt Essen and Nuremberg.
According to the authorities, 65,000 people across Austria took part in the demonstrations, the organizers speak of 150,000. In Burgenland and Vorarlberg, the demonstrations were declared school-related events, meaning that there were no sanctions in the event of participation. At least 30,000 people took part in the mass rally on Heldenplatz in Vienna on September 27, 2019. Further demonstrations took place in all state capitals (except St. Pölten) and in Oberschützen.
The Switzerland announced rallies in Aarau, Baden, Biel, Frauenfeld, Freiburg, Geneva, Glarus, Jura, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Rapperswil, Schaffhausen, Winterthur, train and Zurich. 60,000 to 100,000 people (according to the organizers) took part in the national climate academy in Bern on September 28, 2019.
In other European countries
In Italy, one million people were counted at the rallies. In Milan and Rome , between 150,000 and 200,000 took part, mostly schoolchildren.
In Spain there were demonstrations in Froxan and Madrid.
50–60,000 demonstrators gathered in the Swedish capital Stockholm .
North and South America
Chile is hosting the next UN climate conference in December 2019. Around 20,000 demonstrators marched through the capital, Santiago de Chile , waving banners like "The future is now".
Rallies were also held in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, and in other cities in the country.
Asia
Tibetan students protested in Dharmsala in their Indian exile .
There were also rallies in Bangladesh , at risk from rising sea levels .
There were no demonstrations in Beijing or Shanghai.
Africa
- Angola : 50,000 children and young people at a demonstration in Luanda
- Burundi : In Bujumbura, activists cleaned the beaches of Lake Tanganyika
- Ivory Coast : The protests in San-Pédro were mainly directed against a planned coal-fired power station.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo : follows
- Kenya : Here too, the demonstrations were directed primarily against the use of coal for electricity generation.
- Morocco : Youth protests took place in Casablanca , Demnate , Fez , Marrakech and in the capital Rabat , supported by a teachers' association and Greenpeace.
- Nigeria : Several demonstrations, with low numbers in Lagos and more than a hundred in Abuja .
- Senegal : an estimated two hundred students gathered in Dakar .
- South Africa : The organizers estimate a total of 18 rallies with around 5,000 participants. Some of the rallies were organized by the African Climate Alliance .
- Tanzania : A protest march was formed in the capital, Dar es Salaam , led by a local band.
- Tunisia : Schoolchildren and students demonstrated against the government's climate policy.
- Uganda : Hundreds of students protested in Kampala , led by Leah Namurgewa , a 15-year-old climate activist.
Australia, Oceania, Antarctica
The week of the strike began on September 20, 2019 with large-scale demonstrations across Australia . The organizers counted more than 300,000 participants at more than a hundred rallies. Many companies released their employees. The figures in detail: 100,000 in Melbourne, 80,000 on the Domain site in Sydney, 22,000 in Hobart, 20,000 in Brisbane, 15,000 in Canberra, 10,000 in Perth and 8,000 in Adelaide. The government has been urged not to start new fossil fuel projects and to fund "a just transition and job creation for all workers and communities in the fossil fuel industry". Cigarette butts and plastic parts were collected on Bondi Beach.
In New Zealand , 400,000 of the five million New Zealanders took to the streets, nearly one in twelve.
There were also demonstrations in Antarctica . Some researchers joined the call for swift action.
Web links
- EARTH STRIKE , official website
- Greta Thunberg Leads Largest Climate Strike in History , produced by Subverse News
Individual evidence
- ↑ Earth Strike: International Demands , accessed September 27, 2019
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk : Hundreds of thousands at climate demonstrations worldwide , accessed on September 27, 2019
- ↑ a b c Kurier (Vienna): Millions of people all over the world at Klimademos , September 28, 2019
- ↑ Fridays for Future: Strike Card , accessed on September 27, 2019
- ↑ a b Record participation in Austria: Strong end to the climate strike week. In: orf.at . September 27, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019.
- ↑ Fridays for Future Austria: Earth Strike , accessed on September 27, 2019.
- ↑ Bern: 60,000 people at the Klimademo. In: nzz.ch . September 28, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Klimademo in Bern - organizers speak of 100,000 participants. In: srf.ch . September 28, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Kurier: Worldwide climate protests: "Hot pizza instead of hot planet" , September 28, 2019
- ↑ Global climate strike sees 'hundreds of thousands' of Australians rally across the country . In: ABC News , September 20, 2019.
- ^ Environmental activists get down and dirty on mass cleanup day . In: Agence France-Presse . Channel NewsAsia. September 21, 2019.
- ↑ Millions Of Young People Around The World Are Leading Strikes To Call Attention To The Climate Crisis . In: BuzzFeed News . 20th September 2019.