A few hundred young people pounded the pavement on Sunday in Paris to demand a brake on advertisements, after a weekend of climate protests which mobilized little in France compared to the major marches of 2019, before the Covid-19.

The slogan of the Parisian march between the Panthéon and the Ministry of the Economy, at the call of Youth for Climate: "demand a change in society and demand from our politicians a drastic reduction in advertising in Île-de- France ".

“We are going straight into the wall”

Marches gathered a few hundred people on Friday in Paris and elsewhere at the call of another organization (Fridays for Future), while other activists chose more offensive modes of action: the blocking of TotalEnergies premises in Lyon by young people from Youth for Climate;

the blockades by Attac of the quay of the billionaires of Antibes on Saturday and of the business terminal of Le Bourget airport on Friday, with militants from Extinction Rebellion for the latter.

"Advertising generates overconsumption and therefore overexploitation of natural resources", explained on the spot Abel Jeudon, 18, activist of Youth for Climate, one of the organizations born in the wake of the school strike started in 2018 by the young Swedish Greta Thunberg: "time is running out, we have to act quickly, radically, and completely change direction because we are going straight into the wall".

“Growth is not synonymous with happiness,” said signs.

“We will be the first concerned”

“The IPCC report showed it well: the most precarious people drink the most from climate change.

And so we, students, will be the first concerned, ”said Imane Ouelhadj, president of the UNEF student union, in the procession.

For Camille, 24, unemployed, Nupes inserter, “on questions of ecology, we tend to send us a few messages that small daily gestures will change things.

For us, it's the opposite message that we want to convey: in fact, it's a system that we have to fight together”.

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