'There is no planet B!': Young Israelis demand action on climate change

Record ID: 1433847

  • Title: 'There is no planet B!': Young Israelis demand action on climate change
  • Date: 27th September 2019
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (SEPTEMBER 27, 2019) (REUTERS) CLIMATE ACTIVISTS IN RED COSTUME WALKING VARIOUS OF CLIMATE ACTIVISTS DURING PROTEST ACTION VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS STAGE DIE-IN DURING GLOBAL CLIMATE PROTEST SIGN READING (English): "THERE IS NO PLANET B!" PROTESTERS STAGE DIE-IN DURING GLOBAL CLIMATE PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (English) 23 YEAR OLD ISRAELI PROTESTER, LEO SHALOM, SAYING: "I am here to protest because of the situation of the environment is the most terrible it was in the whole years. Now we have to do something, we have to do something to change it and we want that the government will wake and people that holding all the money will wake for all the people that cannot speak their voice, because they are somewhere there dying from hot, dying from the cold and have no food, and it is going to happen to us, our bubble going to explode." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS LAYING ON GROUND IN DIE-IN STAGING FLAG FLYING, READING (Hebrew):" THE GAS RIGS AND CONDENSERS WILL BE REMOVED." YOUNG PROTESTERS CHANTING AT CLIMATE CHANGE PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (English) 16 YEAR OLD PROTESTER, MICHAEL BACKLUND, SAYING: "It's not a nice thing to know that seven billion people in the future are going to look at you in the eyes and are going to say 'shame on you'. That is why I am here today, I am here to protest, I am here to show my anger and I will keep to do that until Israel announces and declare climate emergencies and makes real action. We need to go to 100% renewable energy, we need to stop using carbon, we need to give equity and climate justice for all of us and finally listen to the scientists. Thank you very much." YOUNG PROTESTERS CHANTING AT PROTEST PROTESTERS GATHERED AT PROTEST
  • Embargoed: 11th October 2019 13:02
  • Keywords: Israel Climate change strike protest
  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • City: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA001AYFOA4N
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Hundreds of young Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Friday (September 27) demanding their government address the issue of climate change.
    Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg lambasted world leaders for a lack of climate change policies at the United Nations Climate Action summit in New York this week, where the United Nations have called climate change the "defining issue of our time.
    Thunberg rose to global prominence last year by taking time off school to demonstrate outside Swedish parliament about the lack of action to combat climate change. Inspired by her weekly protest, millions of young people protested around the globe last Friday (September 20) to put pressure on governments to act.
    (Production: Rami Amichay, Suheir Sheikh)
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