They are from all over the world, and they are leading a massive movement demanding political action on climate change.
Brut Nature met three of these young people who are fighting for the future of us all.
Brut Nature met three of these young people who are fighting for the future of us all.
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00:00On March 15, we were all together all over the world, in the United States, even in Africa,
00:21in Australia, in Japan.
00:23I had never seen that before. It was 2,500 people, but it was great, and everyone was shouting,
00:30and there was really meaning behind the slogans.
00:32It's really the principle of the climate strike, young people everywhere say that it's no use studying for a future that won't exist,
00:41and it's real, the scientists are telling us, and really asking the leaders everywhere to listen to the scientists,
00:48and it's a very powerful message.
00:50I also think that this movement was supposed to leave a long time ago, and that it was just waiting for a click.
00:57It's been a long time since we could have invested, and then Greta came along and destroyed all the leaders at COP24,
01:10and we said to ourselves, she can do that, but let's do it right away, there's no hesitation.
01:16We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not.
01:21It's impressive that she, alone, this little girl, with her little braids, she creates a movement, it's incredible.
01:32I don't know how many people came out on the streets.
01:34About 4 million, according to the latest figures.
01:37On Friday?
01:38On Friday, March 15.
01:39It's amazing, and we realize that we are really numerous, and I'm sure that all together, we can achieve something.
01:48I thought that small individual actions were no longer enough, that they were important, but that it was not going fast enough,
01:54and that we couldn't do everything on our own, and so I thought it was time to ask the states for help,
02:01and to name the real culprits, which are the companies.
02:05There are things that can be done individually, but there are also things that must be taken by the government,
02:12such as imposing carbon taxes.
02:14Sanctioning polluting companies.
02:17Who do not respect the rules.
02:19Taking plane tickets at 30 euros for a round-trip.
02:22A tax on the plane, and use it to develop the trains.
02:27More than taxing the plane, I think that it is necessary to make the train more interesting than the plane.
02:33It costs less to make a train move than to make a plane move, so why does it cost more?
02:38The prices must really be revealing of the impact that is happening on the planet,
02:43but not just raising prices, the goal is not just to tax, it is to lower the prices of things that are biological,
02:51of biological agriculture, lower the prices of alternatives that are more sustainable and more ethical.
02:57And it's not just putting taxes, it's also offering solutions to people,
03:01because just taxing to tax is to pretend to be a saviour of the planet, while we just perpetuate the same system.
03:09I still have a little hope, I still remain optimistic.
03:12I tell myself that in the end, it is all that is happening today, these catastrophes, ultimately, that push us to change society.
03:20In a world of finite resources, and in a world that is fragile, with a fragile biodiversity,
03:24continuing at all costs growth and the race for profit, it is just no longer possible, we realize it.
03:29And more and more, we say it, citizens say it, but there are some decision-makers and some multinationals
03:36who, among themselves, decide that it doesn't matter, the lives of all these people who are going to die, it doesn't matter.
03:40And we want to make it clear that it is our lives, it is no longer even future generations, it is our lives and our children.
03:46And so we want to make ourselves heard at all costs.
03:50In fact, we have to focus on what our needs are, what we want, what we need to be happy,
03:58and just focus on that and forget about profit.
04:02And for that, we need a change of system, because the system in which we are, we know it,
04:06will not allow us to respond to the crisis situation in which we are today.
04:11It's been 40 years since we've been told that scientists are alert, 30 years that there are assaults that scream in the street all the time.
04:18And yet nothing happens, and we pretend that it doesn't exist.
04:22And I can't... In fact, it's really incomprehension, I don't understand why we don't move,
04:27and why even today, when we know that it is us who are going to live things,
04:31why do we continue to pretend that nothing happens?
04:35That's it, we really expect that there will be a catastrophe.
04:39If Emmanuel Macron were in front of me, I would tell him that he has to open his eyes to the problems,
04:45both social and climatic, that there are in France, and that we have to take measures now.
04:50We don't have time to wait for the next elections, it's now that he has to react.
04:55And anyway, it's something that Greta said, change is coming.
04:59Young people, we are in the street, social movements are in the street,
05:02the Yellow Vests are in the street, and there is a time when change is coming and we will have to react quickly.
05:07You shouldn't be afraid to act, to talk about it to others, to talk about the climate to others,
05:12to be labeled as ecological, or things like that, because in the end,
05:17all this, this action, it's not something individual, it's something for everyone's future,
05:22something we do for everyone's happiness.