– Our politicians have so far completely failed to handle the situation. That’s why normal people choose to act and break their passivity. The time to avoid disaster and collapse has already run out – but we will not give up. For every day that passes we, regular people, can fight to prevent a total extinction of all life on earth. Just close down the fucking peat mines! says Alfred Westh, press spokesperson at Återställ Våtmarker
Peat is Sweden’s brown coal. Peat releases more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than coal, oil and gas when it is mined, regardless if it’s burned as fuel or used as soil for plants. All this during the largest catastrophe in humanity’s history. Återställ Våtmarker’s goal is to get a total ban on peat mining, as stated on their website.
– I am so insanely worried about the children and for our common future. I am a kindergarten teacher and I meet many children. Right now those children are being totally robbed of their right to a habitable planet, because us grownups are not acting. I am afraid but before all angry because the grown up world is letting the children down, says Anton Charles Karlsson, who took part in the action.
