Ahead of a climate strike in the streets of Madrid, Greta Thunberg and other young climate campaigners on Friday held a silent sit-in in the halls of the COP 25 United Nations conference in the Spanish capital in a display of frustration and anger over government inaction on the planetary emergency.
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David Fopp, a founding member of Extinction Rebellion in Sweden, called the youth action the “most powerful and strong statement you can imagine.”
Global climate movement 350.org, in a tweet, said the action was meant “to get government leaders to WAKE UP.”
“We need climate action and we need change right now. And the time to act is now,” said 22-year-old Hilda Flavia Nakabuye of Uganda, a self-declared “victim of this climate crisis,” as she took part in the protest.
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