This Friday, students from the Student Climate Strike threw paint at the Ministry of the Environment in Lisbon and pasted a plan for the government’s renewable energy service on the front door.
According to the statement, “students point out the failure of the government and argue that ending the use of fossil fuels by 2030 and 100% renewable and affordable electricity by 2025, guaranteeing the last gas winter, is a truly just energy transition and can only happen under conditions” a system in which governments and institutions are not controlled by companies and vested interests.”
Let us remember that about a month ago, activists of the same organization threw paint on the minister. action in the field of environment and climate, Duarte Cordeiro, justifying this point “by the importance of holding the government accountable for negotiating what should not be negotiated: the energy transition and our future.”
Action spokesperson Matilda Ventura states that “whoever shakes hands with the fossil system gets dirty” and repeats the idea that corruption is inevitable as “governments and institutions negotiate our future in exchange for profit.”
Another student present at the scene gave a speech in which he declared that “the government has fallen, but there will be no peace until the last gas winter. Whatever the government, there will be no peace: the climate crisis will not end and our future must be guaranteed. There can be no peace without a future.”
“This is your opportunity to speak out,” he warned.
Starting November 13, students will begin a wave of “end fossil” actions, in which they will “stop schools and institutions.” The group stresses that there will be no peace among activists until the government commits to their future.