I choose to resist because it is my human duty and my parental responsibility to stop the ongoing death project of those in power.
We have made up our minds.
and Neova is scared shitless!
During the summer, we will take action against the Finnish-owned company that is destroying our bogs.
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Finnish state digs up our bogs
We intend to put a stop to that!
Peat mines are like oil rigs, small in size but with deadly emissions.
This summer we are returning to the peat mines to put even more pressure on the Finnish state-owned company Neova.
Neova accounts for over 70% of peat mining in Sweden!
We have a tailwind now!
Peat mining has become a hot issue.
We can win this!
We can get a total ban on peat mining:
- The peat issue is up at government level.
- The Environmental Objectives Committee proposes to ban new peat mining from 2026.
- The peat issue has become national news with the informative report in Dagens Nyheter.
- And at the Nordic Gardening Fair, peat-free seed soil was the product of the year.
- And we were acquitted in Jönköping District Court.
The right of public access applies to peat mines!
The lobby organisation Svensk Torv is trembling, and rightly so.
Peat bogs are magical
They:
- are our lifeline, says research,
- are incredible carbon sinks,
- provide us with groundwater,
- stopping forest fires,
- protect us from floods
- and our bogs are home to 20% of all our red-listed species!
Third time lucky!
This is the third summer we've been out on the peat bogs.
The crucial moment has come.
Join us this summer! It will be an experience of a lifetime and a rich memory that you will share with many others.
We'll be digging ditches, carrying, stopping and camping in turns on the bog. We are taking over what is ours.
Nature belongs to all of us.
Background
Facts about peat
Peat is mined from bogs. A peat bog is a place where dead organic matter has been stored for thousands of years surrounded by water. The stored carbon is released into the atmosphere when it comes into contact with oxygen during mining and turns into carbon dioxide.
- Peatlands cover only 3% of the Earth's surface
- But they store twice as much carbon as all the forests on Earth!
- Leaving peatlands untouched is vital to prevent climate disaster from getting worse.
- This can only be ensured with a law banning peat extraction.
- Such a ban would be particularly important in Sweden, which has 15 per cent of its land area covered by peatlands and is the third largest peat producer in the world after Germany and Finland.
A look into the past
Change always comes through disruption
The changes to society that have deepened our democracy and given us our human rights have always come from ordinary people who have simply had enough. People who have disrupted, shaken, shouted loudly and fought day after day until the change has happened.
The science is clear: we are about to crash into a total climate breakdown and a global societal collapse.
We are about to lose everything.
Peaceful resistance is the only chance we have to change the world on the scale now required.
We all know deep down that it is not enough to demonstrate, plug ditches or build nature reserves when the fossil fuel industry and elite politicians are prepared to let people die in order to retain their power.
Much more is now required of us as human beings.
Patrik, 51, father of 2 children.
Sprayed red paint on the Finnish Parliament in protest against the fossil fuel company Neova.
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Resistance shows that we do not accept that those in power are steering us towards climate hell. We need to act proportionately when they actively and deliberately sabotage the world as we know it
Rufus, 23
Closed the Finnish embassy in protest against Neova.
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When money and big Egos have taken over our lives, I want to resist! As an activist, I want to create space for knowledge, compassion and love for all living things.
Ann-Marie, grandmother of Sigge, 4 years old.
Built a nature reserve when Neova destroyed Grimsås mosse.
It hurts me so much. Why should I have to do this? It's really crazy! All it would have taken was a little bit of backbone from our leaders. It would have been so easy to protect our country and ban the Finnish fossil peat industry.
Jonas, 53
Sprayed down a private jet at Bromma Airport in protest against the government's climate policy.
What are the objectives of Restore Wetlands?
In the short term: Neova out of Sweden
In the first instance, the movement wants the fossil fuel company Neova to be kicked out of Sweden and take its dirty peat mining operations with it.
When politicians won't do it, ordinary people will have to do it themselves.
We will do this through peaceful resistance until we win and Neova disappears.
Long term: citizens' councils, real democracy & living in love
The end goal is not about peat or wetlands.
It's about protectingall life and democracy.
Our vision is for people to come together in citizens' councils, in a better democracy than the one currently on offer, to act together in care for each other and nature.
Climate disaster will cause global chaos. Living in love and letting the people decide is the only chance we have for a dignified life in the future.