Toulouse: sitting in the street against “the climate emergency”
To alert the population to the dangers of climate change, members of the Extinction Rebellion group blocked streets in Toulouse yesterday
“A serious ecological crisis threatens us,: global warming, natural disasters which follow one another, collapse of biodiversity. The last report of the IPCC is alarming. Since 1990 the temperature has increased by 1, 2 degrees. And it is expected that if We continue like this, it will have increased by 4 degrees in 2050. However, the viability threshold has been set at 1.5 degrees… And there is an inertia of the governments which are only proposing insufficient measures “explains Sophie from the Extinction Rébellion movement. . So yesterday, on the eve of COP 26 to raise awareness of this cause, the group carried out actions to block traffic in different points of Toulouse. By sitting down, motionless in the middle of the road.
Thus, at 3 p.m., rue Labéda, with a sign on her shoulders, the young woman blocked traffic for about thirty minutes. On the cardboard panel, inscriptions. On the “front”: “I am terrified for our future and that of our children because of climate change”. On the back: “I am terrified of more and more deadly disasters due to global warming”
In their car, the motorists, stranded, chomped on their brakes before deciding to reverse. Passers-by had mixed opinions. The younger ones, saluting the non-violent side of the gesture, that it could have an impact. The older ones, while recognizing the courage of the young woman, embellished her with a shrug of the shoulders, adding “That’s not what’s going to change things. All that’s going to happen to her is that the police will arrive… “
What was chosen made, around 3:40 pm. There, gently, after trying a little discussion, the police introduced the young woman and dropped her on the sidewalk.