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IPCC Report Protest

It has been about 3 years since I started Fridays for future striking on my own in Belfast, and about 3 and a half years since i went to my first climate strike with ycani.


Since then, we have got 7000 people on the streets of Belfast all demanding climate action, and even a climate emergency being declared, first in Belfast and then for all of NI. However, what has also happened in that time is 1 in 24 people have died from our illegal levels of air pollution every year in Belfast alone, and parts of the country have become uninhabitable due to sea level rise. Racism, sexism and homophobia have also been on the rise. We are faced with a unique political situation in this country, with a false sense of democracy and a government only fit for the stone ages.


When I first joined the movement, we were a handful of people, and since then, we have grown to thousands, we have met with world leaders, we have organised mass protests and we have used every tool at our disposal to raise awareness of the climate crisis. However much awareness we may have raised, we have not seen that transform into action. We have been given false promises at every strike by politicians and we are done trusting them.


We are done waiting and we are done with the puppet show meetings. This is no time for political games and power play. People are dying. We are seeing it in the news every single day with fires, floods and droughts. Fridays for future Northern Ireland refuse to sit idly and watch the sixth mass extinction happen right in front of us. We are killing off our own species and bringing entire ecosystems down with us.


Next week, we are staging a 6 day long protest. This is for climate science, it is for justice, and it is for survival. We are done being nice about this. World leaders, we are watching you, and we won't take your words. We want your actions. We want your acceptance of science. We want justice and action and the people on the front lines need it to start yesterday. But we will settle for today.

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