Brut met young people involved in the "Youth for Climate" movement

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They are from all over the world, and they are leading a massive movement demanding political action on climate change.  Brut Nature met three of these young people who are fighting for the future of us all.

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00:00On March 15, we were all together all over the world, in the United States, even in Africa,

00:21in Australia, in Japan.

00:23I had never seen that before. It was 2,500 people, but it was great, and everyone was shouting,

00:30and there was really meaning behind the slogans.

00:32It's really the principle of the climate strike, young people everywhere say that it's no use studying for a future that won't exist,

00:41and it's real, the scientists are telling us, and really asking the leaders everywhere to listen to the scientists,

00:48and it's a very powerful message.

00:50I also think that this movement was supposed to leave a long time ago, and that it was just waiting for a click.

00:57It's been a long time since we could have invested, and then Greta came along and destroyed all the leaders at COP24,

01:10and we said to ourselves, she can do that, but let's do it right away, there's no hesitation.

01:16We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not.

01:21It's impressive that she, alone, this little girl, with her little braids, she creates a movement, it's incredible.

01:32I don't know how many people came out on the streets.

01:34About 4 million, according to the latest figures.

01:37On Friday?

01:38On Friday, March 15.

01:39It's amazing, and we realize that we are really numerous, and I'm sure that all together, we can achieve something.

01:48I thought that small individual actions were no longer enough, that they were important, but that it was not going fast enough,

01:54and that we couldn't do everything on our own, and so I thought it was time to ask the states for help,

02:01and to name the real culprits, which are the companies.

02:05There are things that can be done individually, but there are also things that must be taken by the government,

02:12such as imposing carbon taxes.

02:14Sanctioning polluting companies.

02:17Who do not respect the rules.

02:19Taking plane tickets at 30 euros for a round-trip.

02:22A tax on the plane, and use it to develop the trains.

02:27More than taxing the plane, I think that it is necessary to make the train more interesting than the plane.

02:33It costs less to make a train move than to make a plane move, so why does it cost more?

02:38The prices must really be revealing of the impact that is happening on the planet,

02:43but not just raising prices, the goal is not just to tax, it is to lower the prices of things that are biological,

02:51of biological agriculture, lower the prices of alternatives that are more sustainable and more ethical.

02:57And it's not just putting taxes, it's also offering solutions to people,

03:01because just taxing to tax is to pretend to be a saviour of the planet, while we just perpetuate the same system.

03:09I still have a little hope, I still remain optimistic.

03:12I tell myself that in the end, it is all that is happening today, these catastrophes, ultimately, that push us to change society.

03:20In a world of finite resources, and in a world that is fragile, with a fragile biodiversity,

03:24continuing at all costs growth and the race for profit, it is just no longer possible, we realize it.

03:29And more and more, we say it, citizens say it, but there are some decision-makers and some multinationals

03:36who, among themselves, decide that it doesn't matter, the lives of all these people who are going to die, it doesn't matter.

03:40And we want to make it clear that it is our lives, it is no longer even future generations, it is our lives and our children.

03:46And so we want to make ourselves heard at all costs.

03:50In fact, we have to focus on what our needs are, what we want, what we need to be happy,

03:58and just focus on that and forget about profit.

04:02And for that, we need a change of system, because the system in which we are, we know it,

04:06will not allow us to respond to the crisis situation in which we are today.

04:11It's been 40 years since we've been told that scientists are alert, 30 years that there are assaults that scream in the street all the time.

04:18And yet nothing happens, and we pretend that it doesn't exist.

04:22And I can't... In fact, it's really incomprehension, I don't understand why we don't move,

04:27and why even today, when we know that it is us who are going to live things,

04:31why do we continue to pretend that nothing happens?

04:35That's it, we really expect that there will be a catastrophe.

04:39If Emmanuel Macron were in front of me, I would tell him that he has to open his eyes to the problems,

04:45both social and climatic, that there are in France, and that we have to take measures now.

04:50We don't have time to wait for the next elections, it's now that he has to react.

04:55And anyway, it's something that Greta said, change is coming.

04:59Young people, we are in the street, social movements are in the street,

05:02the Yellow Vests are in the street, and there is a time when change is coming and we will have to react quickly.

05:07You shouldn't be afraid to act, to talk about it to others, to talk about the climate to others,

05:12to be labeled as ecological, or things like that, because in the end,

05:17all this, this action, it's not something individual, it's something for everyone's future,

05:22something we do for everyone's happiness.

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