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Yesterday I was part of a group that peacefully protested the expansion of a coal mine in Germany. We were kettled by police and then detained but were let go later that evening... Climate protection is not a crime.

— Greta Thunberg

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Unite behind the science, that is our demand. (Thunberg told a plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

The Cops are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing.

"We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights."

"If we do not [phase out fossil fuels], it will be a death sentence for countless people.

"We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible."

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