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Strikers Call New Mexico 'Front Line' for Climate Change

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Thursday, September 19, 2019   

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Students in New Mexico are encouraging adults to join them Friday in the Global Climate Strike ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit next week.

The global protests have been inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who first made a name for herself while staging weekly sit-ins outside the Swedish parliament.

In New Mexico, Jonathon Alonzo, a high school senior with the group Fight for Our Lives in Albuquerque, says young people even more than adults recognize that climate change is a grave threat.

"We all understand climate change,” he asserts. “We see the effects first-hand, especially here in New Mexico where we are one of the front-line communities, where we see the problem is more with people that are older than us – like our parents or grandparents, who we have to convince this is a reality."

The United Nations General Assembly has gathered world leaders and diplomats from 193 nations in New York to push for more and faster cuts to global greenhouse gas emissions.

In addition to strike events in Robinson Park in Albuquerque, other climate change activities will take place in Santa Fe, Farmington, Las Cruces and Silver City.

Youth in New Mexico are calling on the governor and state lawmakers to initiate a moratorium on fracking; create a transition fund to move the state away from its reliance on oil and gas revenues; support 100% renewable energy by 2030; and pass community solar legislation during next year's legislative session.

Anni Hanna, outreach coordinator for the group 350NM, says changes in climate are especially hard on America's Southwest.

"But it affects New Mexico in particular with hot days, and droughts, and less snowpack and forest fires and fracking,” she points out. “I've been down to the Permian Basin, so I saw all the fracking infrastructure that is going in, and so in particular our front-line communities are really affected."

Young people from around the world hope the coordinated strike on climate change will be one of the largest environmental protests in history.

The last large-scale coordinated climate strike on May 24 drew participants from 130 countries.


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