DoomsdaysCW<p>In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> and elsewhere, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateProtesters</span></a> say pace of change isn’t fast enough</p><p> By SETH BORENSTEIN<br>September 20, 2024</p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — "Six years after a teenage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GretaThunberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GretaThunberg</span></a> walked out of school in a solitary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a>{rotest outside of the Swedish parliament, people around a warming globe marched in youth-led protest, saying their voices are being heard but not sufficiently acted upon.</p><p>"Emissions of heat-trapping gases and temperatures have been rising and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a> drilling has continued even as the protests that kicked off major weeklong climate events in New York City have become annual events. This year, they come days before the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> convenes two special summits, one concentrating on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaLevelRise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SeaLevelRise</span></a> and the other on the future.</p><p>"The young people who organized these marches with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FridaysForFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FridaysForFuture</span></a> said there is frustration with inaction but also hope. People marched in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RioDeJaneiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RioDeJaneiro</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewDelhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewDelhi</span></a> and elsewhere, but the focus often is in New York City because of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateWeekNYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateWeekNYC</span></a>. Diplomats, business leaders and activists are concentrating their discussions on the money end of fighting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> — something not lost on protesters.</p><p>"'We hope that the government and the financial sector make polluters pay for the damage that they have imposed on our environment,' said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Uganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Uganda</span></a> Fridays for Future founder <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HildaFlaviaNakabuye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HildaFlaviaNakabuye</span></a>, who was among a few hundred marching in New York Friday, a far cry from the tens of thousands that protested in a multi-group mega-rally in 2023.</p><p>"The New York protest wants to take aim at 'the pillars of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a>” — companies that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollute</span></a>, banks that fund them, and leaders who are failing on climate, said Helen Mancini, an organizer and a senior at the city’s Stuyvesant High School."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/climate-protests-change-united-nations-climate-week-3c944a1d05d5bb4415c6b811bddc48b9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/climate-pro</span><span class="invisible">tests-change-united-nations-climate-week-3c944a1d05d5bb4415c6b811bddc48b9</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateWeek</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateProtests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FridaysForFuture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FridaysForFuture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a></p>