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Are you going to the worldwide climate strike today?
- Thread starter Sankara
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Yes but I am not in the position to not show up here, unfortunately.
Kudos to everyone who is currently on the streets though. It's great to see 45.000 people here in Hamburg alone.
Don't know if there is a one in my city, I don't get out much or use social media. Cool that people are banding together for this cause.
And I can understand why you'd feel so. I don't even disagree tbh. I just have no faith that we can actually affect something that runs that deep.
Yeah this is my hope. I've seen a lot of changing attitudes towards guns in the US lately and I really would like to think the world can move towards the same with global warming. I can give you my word that if and when we start seeing real impact from marches, strikes etc I'll be there too. It's just very hard to have faith being from the UK and seeing how the media completely ignored the remain marches etc
Like yeah, anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. It's either change the system or start buying shares in canned air and wetsuits.
Jup. I'm going to the one in Ann Arbor in two hours. Took half a day paid time off to attend.
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So you advocate murder just to make a point. Gotcha.
Intent. And your attitude towards that is a surefire way of making people believe in your cause.
The cause is "making sure the planet is still habitable for future generations and preventing global catastrophe from climate change." If you don't believe in that on principle I don't know what to tell you man.
Also taking a day to strike != flying drones or endangering people. Support for a livable planet is not support for every group trying to attain that by whatever means.
I'm not doubting the message. I have great, great issues in putting lives in danger to deliver that message. It also undermines the protest and shines a negative light on it. That itself takes up press time. These actions do the otherwise good actions of others protesting in a peaceful way a sever undermining.
Effective protest doesnt have to mean disruption or endangering others. I don't understand why more people don't get this.
You seem super sure there's an intent to kill, rather than an intent to disrupt....which has been pointed out many times on this very board for BLM protests , is the most effective way to make people take notice even if it doesn't win allies.
When my son in kindergarten gets home from school I will be attending a rally. And because I'm fired up I also accused my Christian denialist family of being cowards last night. I might not be welcome at family gatherings anymore, but I don't give a fuck. The time for being polite and agreeing to disagree is over. Their cowardice is putting the future of my children at risk.
Not endangering people, sure. But do you seriously think a non-disruptive protest gets anything done? The entire fucking point of a strike or protest is to disrupt so people have to take their heads out of the sand and get shit done. Just a bunch of people standing quietly in a corner somewhere does nothing.
There's a major one in my city a week from now and Greta Thunberg will be there. It kills me that I probably won't go because missing work could jeopardize my job. I want to be able to tell future generations that I was there, that I did my part. Maybe I should risk my job and still go. I'm thinking about it.
Nah. I'd rather work than hang out with a bunch of white people whose friends and family profited heavily environmental destruction and have the privilege to look to secure thier future 30 years from now only to turn around and tell poor people that it's everyone's problem now, tighten your belts, stop flying, eating meat and get your denser housing out of my backyard, it ruins my view of nature. I'll continue to support climate change policy, but I increasingly do not want to be associated with this new brand of eco-classism. Rather than personal responsibility, we should be concentrating almost entirely on corporate excess where nearly all the damage is done and solutions are centrally enforceable. And I realize many are that reasonable and my hope is more people catch on and deplatform the louder more ignorant ones. Just seeing some less privileged people involved and pushing for thier own solutions would improve things for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustain...-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change
Mainly just 100 companies
no, there's a ton of people already going, so it wouldn't really make a difference if I was there either way.
they have my support though
also I have work and I'm poor
they have my support though
also I have work and I'm poor
This is a very important post. People should reflect on the danger you highlight here.
There's actually one near me scheduled for after work hours, but I gotta housesit for and take care of my grandpa. :/
good post, but i think part of the goal of this strike is to get governments to pass legislation that would force policy change on a large scale, not individual level
I'm sorry but why can't we do both. As if only voting every couple of years is going to make a difference. What is it you want us to do?
how would the world or movement be better if all these privileged young kids (those monsters! The horror! /s) stayed home and played Zelda today instead?
look at all this privilege. They will just go home later and bathe in their privilege. Should have just stayed in school. SMH /sssss
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That really is amazing, I've read about 200.000 people just in Berlin. Unfortunately I had to work today, so couldn't go. Called a colleague in Hamburg today, he is located right where the demo started, and he told me it was absolut madness. In a good way of course.
Not really. But today is my day off work anyway, but I'm just going to sit at home all day like I usually do.
Being in the crowd with baby strollers sounds like hell. Shout out to NYC school children out on the streets protesting!
yes I was at it in Stuttgart by the SchloĂźplatz/Rathaus. some of my colleagues and I went for a while.
in fact people protest every friday in front of the Rathaus about climate change
in fact people protest every friday in front of the Rathaus about climate change
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She started the school strikes a year ago, they have them every Friday. This time around adults are allowed to join too. There's a UN climate change summit in NYC on Monday, that's why she is in the US and the scale is so big today.
