{"id":28629,"date":"2023-09-19T20:23:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28629"},"modified":"2023-09-19T20:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T03:23:48","slug":"tens-of-thousands-march-against-fossil-fuels-in-new-york-ahead-of-climate-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/09\/19\/tens-of-thousands-march-against-fossil-fuels-in-new-york-ahead-of-climate-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands march against fossil fuels in New York ahead of climate summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issued on:\u00a018\/09\/2023 &#8211; France24.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Climate protesters in NYC: &#039;We cannot tolerate anymore fossil fuel development&#039; \u2022 FRANCE 24\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqXCcXScloA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/news-wires\">NEWS WIRES<\/a>|<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Video by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/france-24-1\">FRANCE 24<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=France24_en\" target=\"_blank\">Follow<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/david-gormezano-0\">FRANCE 24<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But protesters say it&#8217;s not going to be enough. And they aimed their wrath directly at US President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">Joe Biden<\/a>, urging him to stop approving new oil and gas projects, phase out current ones and declare a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/climate\/\">climate<\/a>&nbsp;emergency with larger executive powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hold the power of the people, the power you need to win this election,\u201d said 17-year-old Emma Buretta of Brooklyn of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/youth\/\">youth<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/protest\/\">protest<\/a>&nbsp;group Fridays for Future. \u201cIf you want to win in 2024, if you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands, end fossil fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The March to End Fossil Fuels featured such politicians as Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez\/\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>&nbsp;and actors Susan Sarandon, Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon. But the real action on Broadway was where protesters crowded the street, pleading for a better but not-so-hot future. It was the opening salvo to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/new-york\/\">New York<\/a>\u2019s Climate Week, where world leaders in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/business\/\">business<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/politics\/\">politics<\/a>&nbsp;and the arts gather to try to save the planet, highlighted by a new special United Nations summit Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Democratic US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined a climate rally in New York ahead of the UN General Assembly <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BzpGkf3KNZ\">pic.twitter.com\/BzpGkf3KNZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1703622351768695239?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the leaders of countries that cause the most heat-trapping carbon&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/pollution\/\">pollution<\/a>&nbsp;will not be in attendance. And they won\u2019t speak at the summit organised by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/united-nations\/\">UN<\/a>&nbsp;Secretary-General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/antonio-guterres\/\">Antonio Guterres<\/a>&nbsp;in a way that only countries that promise new concrete action are invited to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisers estimated 75,000 people marched Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have people all across the world in the streets, showing up, demanding a cessation of what is killing us,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez told a cheering crowd. \u201cWe have to send a message that some of us are going to be living on, on this planet 30, 40, 50 years from now. And we will not take no for an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This protest was far more focused on fossil fuels and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/industry\/\">industry<\/a>&nbsp;than previous marches. Sunday\u2019s rally attracted a large chunk, 15%, of first-time protesters and was overwhelmingly female, said American University sociologist Dana Fisher, who studies environmental movements and was surveying march participants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the people Fisher talked to, 86% had experienced extreme heat recently, 21%&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/floods\/\">floods<\/a>&nbsp;and 18% severe drought, she said. They mostly reported feeling sad and angry. Earth has just gone through the hottest summer on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the marchers was 8-year-old Athena Wilson from Boca Raton,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/florida\/\">Florida<\/a>. She and her mother Maleah, flew from Florida for Sunday&#8217;s protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBecause we care about our planet,\u201d Athena said. \u201cI really want the Earth to feel better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People in the South, especially where the oil industry is, and the global south, \u201chave not felt heard,\u201d said 23-year-old Alexandria Gordon, originally from Houston. \u201cIt is frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protest organisers emphasised how let down they felt that Biden, who many of them supported in 2020, has overseen increased drilling for oil and fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden, our lives depend on your actions today,\u201d said Louisiana environmental activist Sharon Lavigne. \u201cIf you don&#8217;t stop fossil fuels our blood is on your hands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8216;Keep it in the ground&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nearly one-third of the world\u2019s planned drilling for oil and gas between now and 2050 is by US interests, environmental&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/activists\/\">activists<\/a>&nbsp;calculate. Over the past 100 years, the United States has put more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than any other country, though&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/china\/\">China<\/a>&nbsp;now emits more carbon pollution on an annual basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You need to phase out fossil fuels to survive our planet,\u201d said Jean Su, a march organiser and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/energy\/\">energy<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/justice\/\">justice<\/a>&nbsp;director for the Center for Biological Diversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marchers and speakers spoke of increasing urgency and fear of the future. The actress known as V, formerly Eve Ensler, premiered the anthem \u201cPanic\u201d from her new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/climate-change\/\">climate change<\/a>&nbsp;oriented musical scheduled for next year. The chorus goes: \u201cWe want you to panic. We want you to act. You stole our future and we want it back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signs included \u201cEven Santa Knows Coal is Bad&#8221; and \u201cFossil fuels are killing us\u201d and \u201cI want a fossil free future\u201d and \u201ckeep it in the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s because leaders don&#8217;t want to acknowledge \u201cthe elephant in the room,\u201d said Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate. \u201cThe elephant is that fossil fuels are responsible for the crisis. We can\u2019t eat coal. We can\u2019t drink oil, and we can\u2019t have any new fossil fuel investments.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily newsletter<\/strong>Receive essential international news every morning<a href=\"https:\/\/emailing.france24.com\/en\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But oil and gas industry officials said their products are vital to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/economy\/\">economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe share the urgency of confronting climate change together without delay; yet doing so by eliminating America\u2019s energy options is the wrong approach and would leave American families and businesses beholden to unstable foreign regions for higher cost and far less reliable energy,\u201d said American Petroleum Institute Senior Vice President Megan Bloomgren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activists weren&#8217;t having any of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fossil fuel industry is choosing to rule and conquer and take and take and take without limit,\u201d Rabbi Stephanie Kolin of Congregation Beth Elohim of Brooklyn said. \u201cAnd so waters are rising and the skies are turning orange (from wildfire smoke) and the heat is taking lives. But you Mr. President can choose the other path, to be a protector of this Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(AP)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas. 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