Under the motto “Tomorrow is too late”, Fridays For Future (FFF) calls for the twelfth global climate demo. Activists are also taking to the streets in Austria. With the aim of putting pressure on politicians to listen to science and fight the climate crisis. Demos have been announced in nine locations, including Vienna.
The climate protection law, which has been pending for about 800 days, is of particular concern to local activists. They will also loudly demand that on Friday.
Numerous reasons for protest
#TomorrowIsTooLate is the international hashtag and the international FFF website lists numerous reasons for the protest: “from the fight against fracking in the indigenous areas of the Esto’k Gna tribe in North America to local resistance in Huasteca Potosina in Mexico or Vaca Muerta in Argentina against the resistance to the EACOP pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania, the fight against the gas fields off the Senegalese coast or the LNG terminals in Mozambique”. However, these reasons are only a small part of the list.
According to climate activists, all these struggles are interrelated and the root cause is funding. “Fossil energy companies like Shell, TotalEnergies, Repsol, Perenco or Chevron can only realize these projects because they receive money from banks, insurance companies and investors.”
However, the Austrian FFF delegation has also shown solidarity with the comrades-in-arms of the last generation. The form in which the commitment to the climate takes place does not matter, it said at a press conference on Wednesday: “Ultimately, it does not matter whether we complain, stick or go on strike.”
Traffic congestion in Vienna’s city center is to be expected
The Austrian automobile club ÖAMTC warned road users in Vienna in advance that traffic jams could be expected in the city center from 12:30 p.m. The route runs from Maria-Theresien-Platz via the ring road to the town hall and further via Lichtenfelsgasse, Felderstrasse and Löwelstrasse to Ballhausplatz. A ring closure from Schwarzenbergplatz or the Opera is expected from 12:00.
Source: Krone
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