Convened by the organizations Alliance for Climate, Youth for Climate Argentina and Fridays for Future, thousands of young people marched today from the Plaza de Mayo to the Congress of the Nation to demand concrete policies to mitigate climate change, in what was a of the 30 mobilizations that took place in Argentina to accompany the global day of demonstrations in defense of the Environment, which were replicated in 160 countries.
Thus, with banners with legends such as “the seasons of the year are more irregular than my period”, “we have only five days left to avoid being the dump of the world”, “we are missing classes to give you one”, and “changes the system, not the world”, Argentine activists are added to the “World Climate Strike.” Some protesters wore beards or masks with anti-gas filters to denounce pollution, while others had their faces painted with schemes similar to the fur of different animals.
A postcard from the mobilization in Bahía Blanca.
Maxim Mazzocco, leader of “Eco House” one of the groups that make up the “Climate Alliance”, indicated that “environmental demands took to the streets, we no longer march those who demand answers to social and economic issues because the issues environment encompasses us all.”
“We demand compliance with minimum environmental budget laws, especially the Forests Act and the Glacier Act; we want the Paris COP21 agreement to be fully implemented and the transition to renewable energy to be accelerated,” he said.
Friday was the third Global Mobilization for the Climate Crisis, as previous ones, following the decision of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to sit every Friday outside the Stockholm Parliament calling for action against the crisis fridays For Future movement.While marching from Plaza de Mayo to Congress, Eva Koutsovitis, habitat specialist and candidate for Portuguese legislator for the Frentre de Todos, charted: “The City of Buenos Aires is one of the capitals of the world with fewer green spaces, does not meet WHO’s healthy standards for between 10 and 15 square metres of green area per capita and 1 tree per 3 inhabitants.”
“The city has detached from more than 400 hectares of absorbent green areas, which in addition to providing a set of ecosystem and social services, are essential for flood relief and heat waves,” he warned.
That action that began individually mobilized last Friday more than 4 million young people enlisted behind the Greta protest in New York in more than 170 countries, on the eve of the Youth Summit on Climate at the United Nations headquarters that is real hoisted in the same American city.
Mar del Plata also had its march for the weather.
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