Posted on 11/29/2019 8:30:08 PM PST by Olog-hai
Even the biting chill of Berlins already wintry fall weather wasnt enough to hold protesters back on Friday as they took to the streets in their thousands to demand more action against climate change.
One group of students even plunged into the icy waters of the Spree River, holding up a white box in a symbolic attempt to rescue the governments climate-change package.
The latest global climate strike comes just three days ahead of the COP25 Climate Change Conference in Madrid. People were set to march in 2,400 cities across 157 countries. [ ]
Across town on Friday, the Bundesrat Germanys upper house of parliament voted on the raft of measures aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. The package was approved by the lower house earlier in November. The climate protection law, an increase in aviation tax and the introduction of an initial CO2 price of 10 ($11) per ton were all approved on Friday, but the Bundesrat is now seeking a compromise on cost-sharing between Berlin and states.
Its just not enough, said protester Meike Schützek. Protesting alongside her colleagues from Ocean Now on Friday, she criticized members of the German government for sitting in their ivory towers where the effects of climate change are not being felt. We urgently need to do more to protect our oceans from all of the plastic, the 43-year-old said.
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This was ‘big’ news via German public TV...they spent 90 seconds showing the swim. I sat and watched it, thinking that if you had some idiot kid drown in the icy waters...the theatrical ‘show’ would have been cut.
Yup. Wére going into an ice age because of global warming. Everything is caused by global warming, Even toenail fungus and hair loss. Oh I almost forgot people stutter because of global warming.
L8r
I won’t believe in GlowbullClimateWarmingChange unless every eco-wacko jumps in a freezing lake!
freeze your asses off, b!tch
Good one!
Millions of Don Quixotes chasing windmills.
The idiots never realize that EVERY solution to fighting "Climate Change" involves:
1) increasing taxes
2) lowering your standard of living
3) giving global entities the power to run your life
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