Year 2020 is going to have to be the year. The year we see carbon emissions stop growing and start falling. It’s a matter of survival. It’ll be the year we start taking on the big banks that are funding the climate crisis.
Global Climate Strike in September 2019 – in 38 countries in Europe, and on every continent across the whole planet, everyday people followed the striking kids out on the streets. A million people protested in Italy. 1,4 million went on strike across Germany. Hundreds of thousands of us joined protests in big cities and small villages across Europe.
We stood hand in hand in our rage and solidarity and we said “no more” to the destruction and oppression which has brought us to a global climate crisis. We spoke up against destruction, racism, patriarchy, and an economy which puts profit above people and planet. We dared to imagine a different future, and fight for it.
Amazon fires – record-breaking fires raging in Brazil during last August, September, and October. More than 80.000 fires were recorded in August. Over 900 thousand hectares were burnt between January and October due to fires. Who sets the rainforest fires? Fires were expanding along the borders of new agricultural development, which is what’s often seen in fires related to forest clearing. Unscrupulous land speculators cut valuable trees, burn the remainder, and sell the cleared land at a heavily marked up price to cattle ranchers or agribusiness.
Australia’s bush fires – set to keep burning into the coming weeks and months. Over 10 million hectares have now burned. A billion animals died in the flames. Reports show that the Australian government has buried response plans and even under-resourced firefighters in the months prior to the fires. Australian government clings to coal. They have ignored man-made climate change for years and expanded the fossil fuel industry.
Right now, mining company Adani wants to build one of the biggest coal mines of the world in Queensland, Australia. #SiemensFuelsFires campaign – a collaboration between #StopAdani campaigners and German Fridays for Future activists – is calling out the multinational’s business to cut ties with Adani. Sign the petition to urge Siemens to get out of the deal with Adani.
We are the change. And we are coming for those who stand in our way. The bosses of fossil fuel corporations. Banks who fuel the fire of climate breakdown by pouring money into coal, oil and gas projects. All who value money and profit over the survival of our planet and the future of the next generations.
Following the capitalist logic, raw materials have to be turned faster into monetary value, faster and faster, accelerating the speed of destruction of our planet. The faster the Amazon rainforest burns down, the more pasture land is available for cattle, and the faster it can be converted into hamburgers. Netzdemo Portal will be focusing on food companies involved in Amazon destruction. Fast Food Brands like McDonald’s Burger King, and KFC have looked the other way while buying beef from Brazil as the Amazon burns. We do not forgive. We do not forget.
