Fridays for Future, on October 9 in the streets for the Climate

"The pandemic has made evident the contradictions of our economic and social system" but "despite this the climate crisis continues to be ignored by the political class": this is how Fridays for Future, the global movement for climate and environmental justice, proclaims the national strike for the climate in all Italian cities for Friday 9 October, inviting "everyone and everyone to strike from a day of school or work and join the mobilization of their city, or organize one from scratch". The movement, which is committed to "respecting the safety provisions for the protection against the coronavirus", reiterates: "we are forced to return to the streets to ask the institutions to act". "No government, least of all the Italian one, has begun - we read - to seriously address the numerous warnings and alarms that the scientific community has provided us to date. Politicians have all the tools to understand the existential significance of environmental, climatic and ecological emergency that we are facing ". Fridays for Future also notes that "this decade is crucial for the survival of our society" and that choices, decisions and policies "will be crucial for the future of the next generations"; 2020, he continues, must also be the year in which "to start implementing the right ecological transition policies, where we can work to have a hope of containing global warming within the + 1.5 degrees centigrade average increase in global temperatures compared to levels pre-industrial ". For the movement "we still have time to change everything", but there is a need "for a revolutionary budget law, for an economy no longer based on GDP but on well-being, for a Europe that is committed to repaying its debt to the southern hemisphere ".