In Berlin have demonstrated on Friday, thousands of students from all over Germany for immediate action against climate change. During a school strike, they demanded the reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases. To stop global warming with extreme weather, melting Poleis, the rise of the oceans and new migration movements, the ends of the quick phase-out of coal energy and the shift away from resource-destroying economic growth with dwindling resources. To the worldwide movement “Fridays for Future” involved students.
The largest youth Demonstration for climate protection in Germany led by the Federal Ministry of economy, where on Friday, the coal Commission, held a meeting at the Federal Chancellery and back. According to organizers, around 10,000 young people participated in the demonstration in the afternoon ; the police talked about 5000 participants.
young people came from all over Germany
children and students carried placards with Slogans such as “children liable for their parents”, “your shoveling millions, we buried dreams” and “Because they are stealing the future”. Young people from 15 towns and cities, such as Saarbrücken, Mainz, Flensburg, some of them come in the night in coaches. “We are overwhelmed at the response of the international media,” said the applicant of the climate-strike-Demo, Luisa Neubauer. In the case of a round of talks with the Federal Economics Minister, Peter Altmaier of the CDU have emphasized politicians vis-à-vis how other countries have admired the economic power of Germany. In the face of “endless growth on a finite planet” would Germany be admired but as a pioneer in measures to stop the warming world very differently, argues against the German “Fridays for Future”movement; according to the IPCC, there is only a few years time.
role model is a 16-Year-old from Sweden
Against the climate policy of the Federal government, there were similar protests in other German cities. The world went on strike after the call and example of the 16-year-old Swede, Greta Thunberg young people in Switzerland, Austria, Canada, Australia and the USA. Thunberg travelled with the train from Sweden to Davos for the world economic forum. “I want you, as if your house is on fire, because it does,” she said in front of managers and leaders. Adults wanted to give young people hope: “But I don’t want your hope. I want that you panic that you feel the fear that I feel every day.“
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In Berlin, demonstrated also parents and teachers. Some schools requested sick leave or apologies, or not allowed to participate, students took the grade six Tests. Other teachers were with the kids officially on a field trip to the climate-Demo. According to the political barometer of the ZDF and the Tagesspiegel year, 61 percent of German citizens under the age of 18-the Initiative.