by InTrieste
The Italian branch of Fridays for Future plans to hold marches in 70 Italian cities including Trieste on Friday, coinciding with the last day of campaigning ahead of the nation’s general election on Sunday.
Fridays for Future Italia claims that politicians have largely ignored the climate crisis during the election campaign, despite recent extreme weather events in Italy and Trieste including a prolonged drought followed by flash floods, fires in Carso this past summer and extremely high summer temperatures.
Appealing for people to join the demonstrations on 23 September, FFF Italia said in a tweet that Italy faced the “umpteenth elections in which almost all politics is divided between those who ignore the climate crisis and those who pretend to face up to it.”
FFF Italia spokesperson Agnese Casadei said that the aim of the protest is to put “the climate crisis and the solutions needed to address it” back into the public eye, reports newspaper La Repubblica.
“The chance of averting a catastrophic rise in temperatures depends on the next five years, and we risk wasting them with a parliament that does not see the climate issue as a priority” – said Agnese – “We cannot allow this to happen. Politicians must realize that ignoring this problem is not an option if they want to obtain the support of citizens.”
Trieste’s FFF march will start in Piazza Oberdan at 9 am in the direction of the center.. The manifestation itself will start at 4 pm in piazza Vittorio Veneto and will finish around 8 pm. There’ll be music, poems, and public political debate.
