00:17Among those on the streets were members of Brazil's largest popular housing movements.
00:23We're at the People's Summit Climate March to guarantee the right to territory and a safe life without disasters.
00:30Landslides and floods, it's urgent that we demand that in Brazil and the world, we restore the environment and protect that which hasn't been destroyed yet.
00:38It's the people on the urban peripheries and in the favelas who are the first people hurt by climate disasters.
00:44Although some treat the damage caused by climate change as a rural issue, throughout the Global South, rampant capitalist real estate speculation has forced hundreds of millions of poor people to fend for themselves on the margins of flood-prone rivers and sewage canals and on steep hillsides that are prone to deadly landslides that have been exacerbated by increased rainfall directly connected to the climate crisis.
01:08This is why the fight for dignified housing is intrinsically related to the fight against climate change.
01:14The housing movements are worried about global warming and climate change.
01:22We know that studies show the Earth's average temperature has already risen by 1.5 degrees.
01:27This is why climate change is accelerating.
01:32Whoever there is a tornado, a typhoon wherever there are climate change disasters, it's the people with low incomes who suffer the most.
01:41And people with low incomes in Brazil are those who live in favelas and poor communities.
01:46They are the workers who live on the periphery.
01:48The People's Summit will end on November 16th in an event in which the participants present UN officials with a list of their collective demands.
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