Thunberg urges climate action because 'people are dying'

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Teen activist Greta Thunberg on Friday urged world leaders gathered in Madrid for a UN climate conference to take urgent action to fight climate ...

"We would love some action by people in power because people are suffering and dying due to the climate and ecological emergency and we can't wait any longer," the 16-year-old Swede told a news conference held just before the rally got underway.

"Without a planet there is no future" and"politicians the earth is dying" were among the signs on display at Madrid's Atocha train station at the start of the five-kilometre route for the Madrid march.Under the slogan"The world has woken up to the climate emergency", the rally featured a significant number of Chilean groups.

"2019 has, without doubt, been the year in which people have woken up about the climate," march spokesman Pablo Chamorro told reporters on the eve of the rally. "Today, climate action means social equality, it's not possible to have social equality without environmental equality."SCAC has been the driving force behind a week-long Social Summit for Climate Action, which begins on Saturday and runs parallel to the COP25, involving hundreds of events, lectures and workshops.

 

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