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Throughout the day, youth mobilize around the world for the fight against global warming.
Asia kicked off the global movement this Friday morning. Schoolchildren, middle and high school students massively answered the call. From Sydney to Seoul via Manila or Bombay, students responded en masse to the call of the young Swede Greta Thunberg to boycott the classrooms, for a day, for this very symbolic "strike of the school for the climate.
The idea behind the Fridays for Future campaign is to mobilize children around the world to persuade decision-makers and businesses to take drastic measures to stop the rise in temperature caused by human activities.
Vanuatu in Pakistan
In the Pacific, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Kiribati, young people started the day, chanting: " We do not sink, we fight. "
Then it was the turn of Australia, the world's largest exporter of coal and natural gas, to wake up. 300,000 people took to the streets of several cities, much more than in March at similar gatherings. With a simple message: " That's enough. Pollutant emissions must be reduced and the ecological transition must be financed to achieve 100% renewable production.
In the Philippines, the day began with a youth summit. Sixty young representatives of indigenous populations threatened by the rising waters and the multiplication of climatic phenomena.
In Thailand, they invaded the Ministry of the Environment. Their slogan: "Save the planet". Their mode of action: to feign death by lying on the ground. That's what will happen if we do not act now, they say. The government must declare the climate emergency and ban fossil fuels.
In Pakistan, more than thirty cities have mobilized. It is necessary that the countries of the South unite to make pay those of the North for their negligence, ask the militants of the environmental cause.
Five thousand events were planned in the world. And the day should culminate in New York where are expected nearly a million young people.