300 students and female students, teachers and children in Rimini in the square for the climate
As Fridays For Future Rimini we took to the streets again, together with asking for one thing: urgent action to stop the climate crisis. About 300 students, teachers, elementary school boys and girls protested today in Rimini for a sustainable world and future. #PeopleNotProfit is the slogan chosen all over the world: it is enough to put the #future and the lives of billions of people at risk to feed the interests of a few.
The reasons for the strike:
Against any war
War is always the bearer of death and destruction, to the detriment of all the victims involved.
In the midst of the climate crisis, union and cooperation between peoples must be privileged instead of yet another conflict. The protagonist of this clash is gas, the same fossil energy source that the WHOLE WORLD should abandon to save us. We are launching an appeal to Italian banks, in particular Intesa San Paolo and Unicredit, the most armed banks in Italy, which every year spend thousands of billions of euros not only on fossils but also on arms exports: stop spending our money in conflicts. We also ask the government to invest in renewable energy so as not to find dictators and owners of GAS.
Just fly death, it’s time to fly the future.
For an energy conversion
We are witnessing the period in which non-renewable raw materials are exploited more intensively. Much of this has been identified through renewable energy.
The ecological revolution could also pass from cannabis, the technologies we have today would allow a use of the plant according to the environment and with a moderate waste compared to the raw materials that are mainly used. Now is the time to act! This is one of the many starting points!
For a correct environmental education
After the last two years of the pandemic, education is more disastrous than ever. Young people do not understand the world around them, the institutions take care of their own interests by forgetting the school environment and once again the problem of global warming is overshadowed by teachers and managers. For a better future it is necessary that young people come to how to live this planet and how to treat it, for this reason we ask for the introduction of environmental education in schools to ensure that students from all over the country are written about the problems that threaten the our existence on this planet. It is vital that a spark ignites in the minds of those who should be determined to educate us. Take to the streets to make this happen. To act now! Extreme weather events in 2021 set the world record. Hundreds of people died in storms and heat waves. Farmers have struggled with drought and in some cases the plague of locusts. The fires set new carbon emissions records as they engulfed forests, cities and homes. Many of these events have been exacerbated by climate change. They tell him they continue to have more on the way – and worse – than Earth’s atmosphere warming up. We have always thought about curing rather than preventing and now we are paying the consequences.
We appeal to governments around the world and ask for your commitment.
Be remembered by leaving us young people a better planet that we will take care of for our children and your grandchildren.
For a healthy and Km0 food against intensive farming
Decades have now passed since the beginning of the intense exploitation of the creatures living on this planet. Our survival depends on them, which is why we must be grateful for them. The only thing WE were able to do was take them out of their natural environment, store them in small cages, and create a system of production and consumption that is not only extremely cruel and painful for the animals themselves, but also inefficient and absurdly (think of waste) and polluting. I no longer accept such a system, do you? Come and have your say. Politics does not listen to those who remain silent.
For sustainable mobility
Today, more than ever, reducing the use of cars, and therefore the emission of greenhouse gases, is fundamental. The latest events on the international fossil scene, once again, how combustibles often lead to conflicts between countries to control their deposits and extraction, and how they can make a country, like ours, dependent on an authoritarian regime like the Russian one .
To do this, it is necessary to make the city suitable for people and not for cars. We ask that the cycle paths be expanded and that the existing ones, which too often are not connected to each other and not usable in an adequate way, be made safer and more efficient.
Discourage the use of the car by removing parking space from places where people can be allowed and met, where children can play and where instead of asphalt there is greenery.
Our city has too many cars, and the only way to reduce them is to encourage the use of bicycles and scooters, the so-called micro-mobility. The solution to traffic is not new roundabouts, new roads or new bridges like the one planned from via Tonale that should cross the Marecchia park, but the improvement of local public transport with safer and more efficient means, which can use preferential lanes, which connect better the suburbs and the forese in the center.
In short, ask for a city free from cars and their toxic fumes !!!
In a self-centered society, the hero of today is those who use the bike !!!
Press release
Friday for Rimini Futura