they don't need to interact it's the same you want to know their story. her fighting and reliable information for migrants. in a way discover the bauhaus code to host world the 40 on w. . yes we want to survive on this planet if we don't say that now it will be too late as the space for over a year young people the world over have been organizing school strikes demanding immediate action to stop climate change reza to back the start of the movement sailed across the atlantic to take her message to the u.s. but not everyone's on board but on my side in my opinion they should strike at the

weekend not during school hours. in europe the young activists spent their summer vacation building networks discussing in formulating their shared values and core demands. 16 year old funk ahem bliss from berlin has been active in the fridays for a future movement for 6 months school's out for the summer but she's been up since 6 o'clock. that's and her friend emile are heading to dortmund in western germany to take part in a friday's for a future summer congress. they met on a strike. the feeling that.

they're on their way to the station like all the young environmental activists in the movement they make a point of never flying and only travel by bus or by train. throughout the summer climate camps are taking place all over europe including in poland the czech republic italy and germany. 1400 activists are attending the congress in dortmund. they start the day with a quick breakfast they're on a tight schedule the 1st panels and workshops are kicking off at 9 am sharp. as i'm not talking about how to ask if she could help but she disappeared with a chair well i'm not helping i don't want any porridge. there are now $600.00 local chapters of friday's for future in germany they're connected on social media but the dortmund summit is the 1st time they've all come together and met in person.

it's been an organizational feat. of if is ultimately surprising to me it's a very we've made a big effort to be as professional as possible and i think we're doing very well we all have bracelets we've set everything up. make sure that everyone knows what their job is and that they do it properly ma. says on the terms i'm guess. that's just because he's of course a man i don't know what it's like at a professional congress but i feel we've achieved a level of professionalism that's actually very impressive. by and focused on. the congress is also about. building networks. has met 16 year old lane of from switzerland.

the organizers have invited christoph schmidt to take part in a panel about carbon tax the chairman of the german council of economic experts he advises the german government on carbon pricing. and if that is guess then you have just read that it was 22 degrees celsius in greenland yesterday and within just 24 hours 12000000 tons of ice melted we want to know what we can do to stop this happening to prevent temperatures from continuing to rise. and a carbon tax is one proposal that comes up again and again. as you said people are miserly and that's why pricing works you could put it like this there's some things free it's not worth anything in the atmosphere is used as a free dumping ground for carbon emissions there's no global cost applied to this and that's why it's overused. believes that carbon pricing would make the german

government stick to its climate targets. but would the general public accept it. friday's for future is calling on the government to introduce a 180 year old tax on each metric ton of c o 2 in europe per capita c o 2 emissions are $8.00 tonnes a year so everyone would have to pay $1512.00 euros in carbon tax schmidt says that's too much. the maximum tax the public would accept would be 40 euros per tonne. and people would also need incentives if they make environmentally friendly choices such as not driving or not flying for example they could claim a reimbursement and that the main issue schmidt says is raising awareness. seeing this a lot of the statistics floating around are made up so it's important that the issues in the background are properly understood to. try to teach. the students want solutions that work and they want them now. they ask

a lot of questions lina is interested in the international context you. can manage it so it's what's the best way of moving ahead globally with a carbon tax obviously every country has to agree on it it's no use doing nothing just sitting tight and waiting to see what other countries do to test and mom didn't choose if you think we would already be doing a lot if we achieve the targets agreed within the e.u. that would be an important step if europe china and the u.s. were all on board by 2030 or huge huge step so we can force suitors to act it's not for us to persuade them that it's worth it. it's not. the stuff can i say it is what other countries do is not the issue switzerland germany whatever have a responsibility. saying i'll only do it if you do it is just childish of us nothing is and fast came this sent us. other countries are always being used as an

excuse. this will only do it if you do it attitude gets us nowhere if that's what all countries do then all that happens is what's happening now nothing it's the fridays for future activists refused to compromise in their demands so far the movement has been a loose collection of disparate groups head of the summer congress 18 year old jaco blasdell founded the organization organized future which manages the events budget of $200000.00 euros made up of participant contributions and donations kind of insofar as one can no individual can be liable for the vent involving $1400.00 people but if i end up with physical we found an association so we could take out liability insurance let's go back to the lows to sign proper contracts. for the global climate strike in may we were at the movement within survive the summer in germany malevolent activities all those worries weren't followed but we felt we had

to do something with something excite. that would unify the movement and raise its profile in the media. we decided to organize congress the brought everyone together and demonstrate the combined force of the movement by the poet is a very good orator. the fridays for future movement is active in over $100.00 countries. it's also expanded into eastern european countries. 2 and poland around $700.00 young activists are taking part in a summer camp halfway between post and warsaw. this is the competition. all the organizations and movements that are here from them just a short space of time. of compassion we've got extinction rebellion which now exist all over europe is what i was thinking about that there

should be a school strike which i belong to and for future poland and these guys and so i would come for climate action arguments the event yesterday i was lucky not to know today is this how it's over that way again. 17 year old antonio michel goes to school in warsaw he's been organizing the school strikes in the polish capital for nearly a year and poland the issue of climate change doesn't get much attention. at the jug a few at school. i learnt a bit about the climate's woodworks and how it's changing. there's not much discussion in the polish media. but also did french at school and i read articles in french in english and in spanish. i only learnt about the terrible state of the climate from the foreign media. poland's populist

right wing government only recently knowledge that human activity is a key driver of climate change. only 15 members of the polish chapter of friday's for future are attending the camp many are put off by the fact the event is being closely monitored by police. she said nothing in the report the. latest that i was on early morning juicy and it was really funny it's the best time because the cops come along and 5 as though. they look to the left to the right and drive past you in this really the monstrous of way. the place is crawling with them. i know we're going to do tomorrow. it's going to be hard to miss the resemblance of a chest. the activists are planning a protest tomorrow which is the demonstration has been officially registered with the authorities but another secret protest is also scheduled. cameras aren't

allowed at this meeting. the police are out in full force when the. testers start gathering the next day. i'm going to put it that they're heading for the town of coney an hour's drive away it's close to an open pit lignite mine. and again i. was at the body of the fellow there's lots of coal mining in poland. this here is the worst kind. of mining. and. it's highly toxic that's. the other problem is that many mines in poland i do love to take it and i'm it's a lot of pollutants over there is the mind. 84 percent of

poland's electricity comes from fossil fuels such as cold and late night and just 14 percent from renewable energies in comparison 50 percent of electricity in germany is generated from fossil fuels 33 percent from renewable energies and 12 percent from nuclear power and france only 10 percent is derived from fossil fuel. 18 percent from renewable energies and 72 percent from nuclear energy. has gotten very good at 00000 just got to that and i'm going to close oh it's got to that's not going to have 00000200 activists are taking part in the demonstration near conan. many reporters are also here. by tony and his friends with friday's for future are among the protesters. the

police don't intervene. that that yeah those that bad that you are. i'm going to. yeah. pass the protesters approach the mine the tensions rise. the police are worried that the activists will try to break through the police barrier. of the striking of the church you for this for a future along. the ground rule for fridays for future in poland is that all or activity or legal. means that this was even in terms of civil disobedience we stick to what's legal. we believe that way will have the biggest reach and the best chances of actually changing things in poland yes this is this. whole movement shares this principle that there's. it's how much we don't break the rules.

and those on the ship and. their official demonstration stops outside the mine. on the other side the illegal one organized by the camp for climate action and extinction rebellion breaks through the police lines. in poland and elsewhere the activists are far from sure that they can really bring about change. a lot of missing is in a way you feel powerless but when you look over there and see how many people have gathered then you realize we might be in with a chance it's the elections it's we're trying to get like them but it all these great people have come together but of course when you look at this vast area of protests can feel in significance it's astounding just absolute bullshit on that.

back in dortmund it's friday strike day. the 1400 activists who come to dortmund from all over germany. have divided up into groups. they don't want to disrupt public transport. i. i. was. i the german wing of the movement has very specific demands the activists want germany to phase out coal by 2030 and to have made a 100 percent switch to renewable energy by 2035 was so i. do not i want to start by saying i'm here even though it's school

holidays and to be honest i wouldn't mind taking a vacation. but we can't afford to waste time even though the politicians have all taken vacations. was that. i was the they do. if the demonstrations had been held on saturdays or sundays no one would have paid them any attention there would have just been a bunch of kids demonstrating in germany or wherever and no t.v. station would have bothered reporting it. because they're missing school people are paying attention that's how it works that somebody ok this is a lot i was. i.

as soon as the demonstrations over laina and john luka head to the station. dana is spending the summer into railing from one climate camp to another. the next is an lowe's on. later helped organize it. and some think you know about the school strikes actions he's at school. so are we even there on fridays aren't day i'm not against them but in my opinion the strike should be held at the weekend and not during school hours schools important let's face it. the stuff that's inside that. school is used as leverage against us we're striking to demand something be done i mean this i don't understand but if you don't go to school you're messing up your future going to school is also doing something for your future. and that is so that

future we supposedly won't have if we don't go to school is threatened anyway by climate change. nonsense this country it's not nonsense and you look at the scientific studies you'll realize pretty quickly that it's not nonsense commissionaire this country nothing came of it and how will you be able to get any qualifications if you don't go to school shows like missing 2 hours on a friday isn't a big deal how about your absences will be noted on your report card i don't care you don't care that doesn't matter it doesn't matter if your absences are noted on your report card sorry i can't talk about this and all of the chads this is a mess back think feel i feel like i've learned so much from the climate strikes about organizing. fans about science and chaffed and i was so her argument doesn't work for me yeah finished. yeah yeah i feel the climate strikes me

loads of life skills. that i learned and 12 years of school seats were shown through many shows. and those on $400.00 young environmental. activists are attending the smile for future conference their aim is to lay out their demands in a formal fridays for a future declaration. a message for governments and political institutions. the congress is being held and the university of laws on. the plane is in a work group with students from 6 countries with their formulating the movement's strategic goals these will be included in the declaration here everything that's in here as a declaration that we took off how we were in the region right so we're talking about 2 different things because you're talking about having broken

group identity and a declaration and i don't agree on that. so it's to create what he said princess promotional structure of product would refer to the book to go by that. that's one of the options we could also do is create to go so what international structure got was that one i don't know. just says but there are delegations from 38 countries. from the outset the movement has had the support of respected climate experts one of them as. vice chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change from 2008 to 2015. thanks we had many things in common. the game.

change which presented. this morning goodness loopholed blame. these young people are very well informed on the climate crisis more so than political decision makers in the general public but it came as a surprise. as to me my marriage the climate change conference in qatar and i could see she was able to give very detailed answers to scientific questions no politician can do that she's or read the literature of the faith a lot a lot of young people are familiar with the i.p.c.c. reports. thank you for what you what is done thank you for what you are doing i would like to thank great. teacher. was she is not a leader. she doesn't want to be a leader but she longs to strike and she student spies at the moment is the international. news for you and she has become.

the star of the fridays for future movement is also here she sits with the other participants. the movement is nonhierarchical and democratic and every vote counts equally in. my lane presents the results of her work group. in the declaration day i was body is and pens it was sent to mad so that but we want that book live on dead people know about it said. the participants are seeking consensus on all the decisions the 1st vote is on the introduction to the declaration of old because the us is the ecosystems is a little horizon and some of his rhetoric about what happens in the next month and

years in the future of human kind of elected extinction is a possible outcome. of this particular ration it isn't. those who agree wave their hands. oh position. i'm just saying this we approve of this if we are able to make some just grace and changes i think that's what we want to do just that you don't get angry and. i don't think anybody's. but of course the word you can be changed in the ball to be changed and you move probably change still is there any strong opposition against this proposal.

good it was a. thank. you. the next day the students demonstrate unloads on. the school strikes polarize opinion. which may well be why they've succeeded in sparking debate about climate protection in many countries. plain as younger sister and her mother are also taking part today so it must be so sad that you felt the sell. outs of adventurers global perspectives stand together in service of a bus near me or something which. they not do you think they'll see you feel safe and it does a lot herself she's very independent she doesn't always give us

a choice and that's when the discussion started and they're not always polite or constructive. or sometimes i think the climate strikes have the last word i don't know that can be difficult and that in the morning with these people this. couple of times i've called her teacher and asked is it really all right as far as her schooling is concerned. he told me he let me know if it started to become an issue for me to. be a new at this. this this and that is active advice i'd like to keep doing this is much as possible it has priority over school i mean this really. you know if in the senate you're running out of time if it's night time to me we need to see a reduction in emissions by 2020.

i am. september 20th and berlin. global strike today. is in a hurry. i. miss him so i have to go back on stage and prepare what i'm going to say a minute or so much time and i think this is. the student movement also has crossed generational support. we've been complaining for years that young people are a political but now driving change we need the courage and ambition mood and the i'm beats you and i did you don't like it and so you know. that's kind of the road.

23 year old student louise annoyed about the best known activist in the german fridays for future movement is one of the co organizers of the demonstration in berlin. yes we're here and we're loud because you're stealing our future. yes yes. like all the young activists here luisa has devoted her summer holiday to the movement. yes i've got that yes yes that's the best band that the world is changing rapidly we're witnessing things shift all the time not just the climate but also questions of justice about what we can expect from economic systems and democracies and the taps and it goes hand in hand with the huge push for emancipation. and the climate justice movement is giving rise to all this must be

evil. listen to me today we've made history 270000 people demonstrated in berlin today. we broke the record in germany this is the biggest protest in german history. and if we take just c.n.n. not nice things a 100 and let it go then i want to see politicians taking action if it comes when i think about my future on this planet i can't not do something for sandeman i can't let my future go down the drain i can't let that happen ceci cases. around the world over 4000000 people took to the streets and the movement is growing these young activists will soon be eligible to vote. can't afford to ignore them.

eco india. roads factories cities their numbers are increasing while the forests are decreasing how can they be protected how can be forestation be done right. for the climate for wildlife for humans the forest is a dire important. thing 30 minutes w. o.

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