– We must protest where we will be heard, and we do it despite the increasing repression in our country. Only shouting on squares and streets will get us nowhere. Our climate minister is failing all climate goals, increasing emissions and on top of that lying to our faces. It’s time for us all to wake up, says Pontus Bergendahl, press spokesperson for Återställ Våtmarker.
Återställ Våtmarker’s goal is a ban on peat mining. Research suggests that peat is a ticking time bomb. Rewetting wetlands is the easiest, cheapest and most effective way to reduce emissions.
– Families are already being torn apart around the world today. And everything we love is being wiped out. And I refuse to stand by and watch. It’s necessary for scared and worried people to take the free-falling climate politics seriously. And act. There is no other option anymore, says Tina Kronberg Berggren, who participated in the airport action today.
Last year, research showed that natural ecosystems have stopped absorbing carbon dioxide. Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute, the world’s leading research center on climate change, said in an article in The Guardian: Nature has so far compensated for our mistreatment of the earth. This has now reached the end of the road.
– I’m doing this action for the love I have for the people around me and for all those who are already suffering as a result of climate change. I do it because I want the oceans and forests and the earth to continue to be a place for all living things here, says John Svensson Renström, who participated in the airport action today.
