{"id":184889,"date":"2023-09-18T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T08:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=184889"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T08:13:29","slug":"tens-of-thousands-march-against-fossil-fuels-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/tens-of-thousands-march-against-fossil-fuels-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands march against fossil fuels in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But protesters say it’s not going to be enough. And they aimed their wrath directly at US President Joe Biden, urging him to stop approving new oil and gas projects, phase out current ones and declare a climate emergency with larger executive powers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hold the power of the people, the power you need to win this election,\u201d said 17-year-old Emma Buretta of Brooklyn of the youth protest group Fridays for Future. \u201cIf you want to win in 2024, if you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands, end fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The March to End Fossil Fuels featured such politicians as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and actors Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon. But the real action on Broadway was where protesters crowded the street, pleading for a better but not-so-hot future. It was the opening salvo to New York\u2019s Climate Week, where world leaders in business, politics and the arts gather to try to save the planet, highlighted by a new special United Nations summit Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Many of the leaders of countries that cause the most heat-trapping carbon pollution will not be in attendance. And they won\u2019t speak at the summit organised by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a way that only countries that promise new concrete action are invited to speak.<\/p>\n

Organisers estimated 75,000 people marched Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have people all across the world in the streets, showing up, demanding a cessation of what is killing us,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez told a cheering crowd. \u201cWe have to send a message that some of us are going to be living on, on this planet 30, 40, 50 years from now. And we will not take no for an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

This protest was far more focused on fossil fuels and the industry than previous marches. Sunday\u2019s rally attracted a large chunk, 15%, of first-time protesters and was overwhelmingly female, said American University sociologist Dana Fisher, who studies environmental movements and was surveying march participants.<\/p>\n

Of the people Fisher talked to, 86% had experienced extreme heat recently, 21% floods and 18% severe drought, she said. They mostly reported feeling sad and angry. Earth has just gone through the hottest summer on record.<\/p>\n

Among the marchers was 8-year-old Athena Wilson from Boca Raton, Florida. She and her mother Maleah, flew from Florida for Sunday’s protest.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we care about our planet,\u201d Athena said. \u201cI really want the Earth to feel better.\u201d<\/p>\n

People in the South, especially where the oil industry is, and the global south, \u201chave not felt heard,\u201d said 23-year-old Alexandria Gordon, originally from Houston. \u201cIt is frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protest organisers emphasised how let down they felt that Biden, who many of them supported in 2020, has overseen increased drilling for oil and fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Biden, our lives depend on your actions today,\u201d said Louisiana environmental activist Sharon Lavigne. \u201cIf you don’t stop fossil fuels our blood is on your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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