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Thousands of protesters will march through
Extinction Rebellion, other environmental groups and concerned members of the public will take to the streets with banners bearing messages for the governments and companies guilty of greenwashing. Led by samba drummers and dressed in green, they will march from the
Attending the march, Extinction Rebellion activist
Google said it achieved carbon neutrality in 2007 despite having emitted 20 million tonnes (https://www.dezeen.com/2021/07/30/carbon-neutrality-google-sustainability-lead-robin-bass/) of carbon since then the equivalent of 10 million cars (https://www.climateneutralgroup.com/en/news/what-exactly-is-1-tonne-of-co2/) driving for one year on gasoline. Meanwhile, the
While multinational companies continue to profit from oil and gas, poorer countries in the Global South bear the brunt of the climate and ecological emergency despite contributing the least (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/climate-change-economic-inequality-growing) . The protesters stand in solidarity with these countries and call out greenwashers for their suffering.
Speaking at the march,
Governments around the world have a duty of care to protect the lives and well-being of their citizens. They are failing. Because of this failure, the rich and powerful countries within the COP process cause crimes against humanity.
With every passing year, the warnings from nature grew ever more visceral and the warnings from science grow ever more urgent. We are now facing climate and ecological breakdown. 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/) , many within decades, more than ever before in human history.
Extinction Rebellion activist
To join the greenwash march meet at
Notes to editors
What is Greenwash?
Greenwash: activities by a company or an organisation that are intended to make people think that it is concerned about the environment, even if its real business actually harms the environment.
https://www.greenwash.earth/
Data on global CO2 Emissions: https://www.iea.org/articles/global-co2-emissions-in-2019
Info on the threat of extinction: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report/
What we risk without change: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/the-truth/the-emergency/part-5/#What-will-our-world-look-like-by-the-end-of-the-century
ABOUT EXTINCTION REBELLION
Time has almost entirely run out to address the ecological crisis which is upon us, including the 6th mass species extinction, global pollution, and increasingly rapid climate change. If urgent and radical action isn't taken, were heading towards 4C warming, and the societal collapse and mass loss of life that that implies. The younger generation, racially marginalised communities and the Global South are on the front-line. No-one will escape the devastating impacts.
Extinction Rebellion believes it is a citizens duty to rebel, using peaceful civil disobedience, when faced with criminal inactivity by their Government.
Extinction Rebellions key demands are:
1. Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
2. Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.
3. Government must create and be led by the decisions of a
What Emergency? (https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/) |
Extinction Rebellion in Numbers (https://docs.google.com/document/d/11E9MUhXWyxweCDKwJqBRZEDLGam268iwUqVAAUG8dus/) |
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/314/314671/this-is-not-a-drill/9780141991443.html)
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