Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate // 28 Feb. 2020

A youth protest is scheduled in Bristol on Friday 28 February, starting at 11am on on College Green. 

The protest organised by Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate, which published details on travels their website:

https://www.getasnap.com/college-green-bristol-44-college-green-bristol-bs1/bristol-youth-strike-4-climate-with-greta-thunberg/event/e6436cd9-da61-48a0-a7a0-3c5d4758ad3c

Journeys only run if enough people want them - holding down carbon impact. Once you've booked, share with others to ensure enough demand. 

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Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/BristolYouthStrike4Climate/?eid=ARDzjXazNGUqufZYmnutkcWI_3Oq7vf9coYW6rfdQ2v8ywdkDNZQ-OUGB08lHz40kVZCcodmyN_Ho0L_

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Activists will come from different places, including Sweden, in the case of young Greta Thunberg, 17, who gained fame after starting a school strike in 2018 in front of the Swedish Parliament.  

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Bristol was awarded the title of European Green Capital in 2015, when I first came here, and reported about these issues:

For RFI: Bristol European Green Capital 2015 series 

http://www.rfi.fr/en/environment/20150427-bristol-european-green-capital-2015-series-part-1-3

+ http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20150428-bristol-pound-european-green-capital-2015

+ http://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20150429-bristol-Green-Party

In 2018, the city became the first UK authority to declare a “climate emergency”, with the council unanimously backing a commitment to be carbon neutral by 2030, and last month, Bristol's city council declared an ecological emergency because of the local decline of many birds, insects and some mammals. 

By contrast, the British government has only committed to net zero carbon emissions in the UK by 2050. 

Yet, few concrete actions have been taken by the public authorities in Bristol and the region. So activists, including Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate and Extinction Rebellion, are still leading the fight on these issues. 

I posted about them here: 

http://melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2019/07/extinction-rebellion-in-bristol-summer.html

and here:

A lot of Bristolians, including artists like Robert Del Naja, have supported these actions, marches, protests and movements.

The band Massive Attack are actually working with the Tyndall Centre For Climate Change Research to help improve the research on the music industry's carbon emissions, using their next tour to test out different methods and ways of making a show as environmentally friendly as possible.  

The band also recently opposed the extension of Bristol Airport, a project that has finally been voted against earlier in February by the North Somerset Council after a long series of consultations.