In Linz, the demonstrators gathered shortly after twelve o’clock next to the Lentos art museum. According to initial police estimates, around 1,000 participants marched from the Donaulände, over the railway bridge and the Nibelungen Bridge to the main square.
Miriam and Isabella came from Steyr with a group of 44 students, the students hold up a poster with the inscription “Peaceful Energy”: “It’s about our future, about the whole world, and not just about us humans, but also about the life of animals and plants. If we had started to do something earlier, it would have been even easier to save the climate. Now we have to do a lot more,” they say.
“Fischers Fritz fishes fresh plastic,” reads the message on the poster of two boys from Traun, both named Simon: “Plastic destroys life in the seas and also contributes to the climate crisis. We are here because we want to do something instead just sitting around.”
Sophia came to the climate demo with her friends: “I’m here so that we can still be there in 20 years.” She thinks that too little is being done to protect the climate, but she finds some initiatives, such as the establishment of nature reserves, positive. It is also right and important for them that the Ukraine war is an issue and that the climate demo is also a peace demo.
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This time, activists from Fridays For Future (FFF) are not only demonstrating for compliance with the 1.5 degree target, but also in solidarity with Ukraine. And for the fourth time, an Austrian climate protection law is being called for, because “there have been no climate targets for 450 days,” reminded Daniel Shams of FFF Austria in advance. The third point on the agenda of the climate strike under the motto “#PeopleNotProfit” is social justice.
In Vienna, the action begins at 1:30 p.m. in the center of Vienna at the Stubentor, from where the demo train heads towards the Praterstern, where the final rally takes place at 4:00 p.m. in the Venediger Au. In the other federal states – with the exception of Burgenland – people are once again taking to the streets for climate protection.
Source: Nachrichten
