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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells climate marchers to be ‘too big and too radical to ignore’ – as it happened [1]

['Maya Yang']

Date: 2023-09-17

7h ago 12.37 EDT Dharna Noor Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York led the crowd in chanting: “Climate justice now.” “We are the revolution,” he said, adding: “It’s going to be our love, our heart, our vision that rebuilds America and saves it from itself.” He railed against US subsidies to oil and gas companies, as well as the nation’s investments in the military. “We continue to give almost a trillion dollars a year to our military-industrial complex, which is the number one contributor to carbon emissions in the world,” he said. @JamaalBowmanNY : "We continue to give almost a trillion dollars a year to our military industrial complex, which is the number one contributor to carbon emissions in the world." pic.twitter.com/kI7IPTAEt6 — 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 (@dharnanoor) September 17, 2023

Updated at 12.47 EDT

7h ago 12.33 EDT Youth climate activist Vanessa Nakate: "We shouldn't allow corporations to have the license to destroy our lands" Aliya Uteuova “This is unfair. This is wrong. And this is unjust,” said Vanessa Nakate a climate activist from Uganda. When we say that we want climate justice. We’re not just talking about transitioning to solar panels. We are talking about leaving no one behind when you’re talking about addressing the injustices that come with the climate crisis. We shouldn’t allow corporations to have the license to destroy our lands, to destroy the air we breathe and to poison the water. Vanessa Nakate speaking at the #EndFossilFuels March “The message is listen to the communities that are on the frontlines of the climate crisis” pic.twitter.com/psOTL61DJQ — Aliya Uteuova (@aliyaute) September 17, 2023 Last September, Nakate spoke to the Guardian on her climate fight, saying: “Africa is on the frontlines of the climate crisis but it’s not on the front pages of the world’s newspapers. Every activist who speaks out is telling a story about themselves and their community, but if they are ignored, the world will not know what’s really happening.”

Updated at 12.47 EDT

7h ago 12.28 EDT Dharna Noor New York state senator Zellnor Myrie spoke about the oil industry’s attempts to sow doubt about climate science: We need to acknowledge they lie to the public, lie to investors and confuse the conversation.

Updated at 12.33 EDT

7h ago 12.24 EDT Dharna Noor “This isn’t just about climate action,” Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity said at the press conference. She added: “This is getting to the culprit of the climate emergency, which is burning fossil fuels. “President Biden, we need you to still step through those doors and to actually commit to no new fossil fuels because that’s the only way we are going to survive.”

Updated at 12.45 EDT

7h ago 12.23 EDT UN comissioner for human rights: "We are subsidizing what is destroying us" Aliya Uteuova Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland and the UN high commissioner for human rights, is at the march’s press conference. “I’m here as chair of the elders, but I’m also here as a grandmother and angry granny because we are subsidizing what is destroying us,” she said, adding: “Our house is burning as Greta Thunberg said, so the elders strongly support phasing out fossil fuel and incentivizing clean energy.”

Updated at 12.32 EDT

7h ago 12.17 EDT Dharna Noor Sharon Lavigne, director of Rise St James, an environmental justice organization based in the notoriously polluted region known as “Cancer Alley”, laid out the activists’ asks at a press conference held by Jean Su of the Center for Biological Diversity ahead of the march. “We demand that [Joe Biden] stop all new fossil fuel approvals, phase out existing fossil fuels and declare a climate emergency,” she said. If the president doesn’t phase out fossil fuels, she said, “our blood will be on your hands.” Sharon Lavigne, director of RISE St. James, an environmental justice organization based in the notoriously polluted region known as "cancer alley," said if Biden doesn't phase out fossil fuels, "our blood" is on his hands pic.twitter.com/zS7plcQmRM — 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗 (@dharnanoor) September 17, 2023

Updated at 13.03 EDT

7h ago 12.05 EDT Aliya Uteuova At the march, Eagle Woman/Kandi White, who traveled here from North Dakota with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said: “A lot of our native people are here today because as has been the case for over 500 years, we’ve had to hold the line in the protections of the fight of our earth.” “The resources that we should be most concerned [about] are not oil, coal and gas. They are the air we need to breathe, the water we need to drink,” she added. Eagle Woman/Kandi White came to the #EndFossilFuels from North Dakota with the @IENearth pic.twitter.com/LwKtA7U6A3 — Aliya Uteuova (@aliyaute) September 17, 2023

Updated at 12.21 EDT

7h ago 11.49 EDT Dharna Noor Here is what a few youth climate activists and organizers told the Guardian’s fossil fuels and climate reporter Dharna Noor ahead of today’s march: Bree Campell, a 17-year-old organizer with Fridays for Future NYC, said: Next year, myself and millions of young people will be newly eligible to vote – and climate is our number one priority. People are expected to travel from far and wide to attend Sunday’s march. “As an 11-year-old girl living with asthma in south-west Louisiana, I’ve experienced first-hand the harmful effects of air pollution on my health,” said Kamea Ozane, an 11-year old from Sulphur, Louisiana – part of the notoriously heavily polluted “Cancer Alley” region – who will attend the march with her mother, Roishetta Sibley Ozane. She added: Every child deserves clean air to breathe and a future free from the dangers of fossil fuels.

Updated at 11.56 EDT

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[1] Url: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2023/sep/17/nyc-march-end-fossil-fuels-alexandria-ocasio-cortez?page=with:block-65072ac08f08c20e22d3f3b8#block-65072ac08f08c20e22d3f3b8

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