A climate mobilization takes place on Saturday, less than a month of the first round of the election. The objective is to bring out the subject in the public debate.
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Saturday, March 12, activists for the climate will come down again in the street, with a new cry of rallying: “Look up”, diverted from the name of the movie Do not Look up (“Cosmic denial”) of the American director Adam McKay, metaphor of inaction in front of the climate crisis. More than 520 organizations and associations, national and local, have called for walking “for climate and social justice”, in some 134 appointments.
Among them, we find the regulars of these great events, as non-violent action COP21 (ANV-COP21), Greenpeace, Network Action Climate, Alternatiba, Friends of the Earth, 350.org, Youth for Climate, L214 , ATTAC, CCFD-Solidarity Lands, Oxfam, the Foundation Abbé Pierre, the League of Human Rights, Trade Unions As the Unit Federation (FSU), the CGT, UNEF … and a multitude of associations local. A month of the first round of the presidential election, it was important for the organizers to bring out climate and environmental issues in the election campaign. The choice was therefore on this date, after the day for the women’s rights of March 8, while the international strike of Fridays for Future youth – the movement created by Gretha Thunberg -, set on March 25, was still uncertain. A month of the election, several candidates should appear in the procession, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon (France Insouchaise), Yannick Jadot (Europe Ecology-les Greens), Anne Hidalgo (Socialist Party), Philippe Poutou (New Anticapitality party).
With the war in Ukraine that mobilizes the attention, and a more discreet but persistent Virus, it is difficult to predict the success that these steps will meet. Will climate control organizations be able to mobilize tens of thousands of people from the 2018 and 2019 events? “We hope that the context of the presidential election, with the almost total absence of the environment and climate in the election campaign, will encourage people to mobilize, to recall the extent of the climate crisis that has not Not disappeared “, hope Elodie Nace, spokesperson for Alternatiba and ANV-Cop21.
The exit of a new alarming report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), February 28, however, has little jostled the news, and hardly reacted the contenders to the Presidency of the Republic.
“Diversity of mobilization forms”
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