Thousands of young people took to the
streets of cities all over Italy on Friday to demand action to
tackle the climate crisis.
As usual at the Fridays For Future protests, there was lots of
colour, music, dancing and fun, including some adult humour.
One banner at the Rome march read "fewer emissions, more casual
sex".
One young woman's slogan went further, calling on people to
"ride dicks, not cars".
But there was lots of politics mixed with the high jinks.
Premier Giorgia Meloni's government came under heavy fire, with
Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto
Frattin singled out for flak after he recently said he was not
sure the climate crisis was caused by human activity.
"Climate Resistance... against State denial" read the main
banner at the front of the Rome march.
One marcher, Alessandro, shouted into a megaphone that: "Green
capitalism is not the solution, to save the planet, we need
revolution".
Those sentiments were echoed by Ludovica of Fridays for Future
Roma.
"We think that the capitalist system, based on profits for the
few and the exploitation of many, cannot be the instrument to
overcome this crisis," she said.
"We want a world with less inequality, which does not exploit
resources in an unsustainable way".
Italy's Fridays For Future movement held its nationwide
demonstrations three weeks after those held in many other parts
of the world because the date of the global strike, September
15, coincided with the start of the Italian school year.
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