“Yes, we must vote, you must vote, but remember that voting only will not be enough. “The political parties haven’t taken the climate catastrophe seriously enough,” Luisa Neubauer, who runs the group’s German chapter, said. Thousands gathered on the lawn there from late morning bearing signs reading “Climate now, homework later”, “It’s our future” and simply “Vote”. Their central demand is to limit the warming of the Earth to maximum 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) as laid out in the 2015 Paris climate accord. “The climate crisis cannot be solved through party politics alone,” Thunberg told reporters ahead of her appearance in Berlin.

Source: The Local September 24, 2021 08:37 UTC