industry lobbies ‘bring real anger to our generation’, says Fridays for Future spokesperson

“The lobbies, it gives rise to real anger in our generation, I believe, to know that we are trying to do our best and that we are fighting every day for a better world and that [d’autres] struggle in the opposite direction and have interests that are economic”, denounces Pablo Flye, spokesperson for Fridays for Future France. The environmental collective calls on young people to strike for the climate on Friday March 10.

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Faced with the many companies that highlight their efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of their production, the environmental activist, guest of Talk franceinfo this Thursday, believes that “young people are not fooled”. “We realize that this is greenwashing, he continues, and basically nothing changes. Moreover, young graduates no longer want to work at TotalEnergies and Total can no longer recruit and that’s good.”

“We want to be prepared for jobs that make sense”

As more young people turn to civil disobedience by joining groups such as Last Renovation or Extinction Rebellion, Pablo Flye argues that “the message of the climate strike is to say ‘we are skipping school because our studies prepare us for jobs that are a continuation of what we have done so far, jobs that do not align with our greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

One of the demands of the day of action this Friday, adds the one who decided to commit to the climate after seeing the Swedish Greta Thunberg launch the first strike for the climate in 2018, is the development “a training course for the thermal renovation professions because the housing sector accounts for more than 20% of our greenhouse gas emissions, it is a huge sector”. “We want to be prepared for jobs that make sense”, insists Pablo Flye.