Climate activists march in Cagliari, ‘you can’t drink oil’

“Contra su desertu fossile (against the fossil desert), we cannot drink the oil, let’s take back the power.” This is the message launched on a banner this afternoon by Fridays for Future and Ultima Generazione in a protest demonstration in Cagliari, in front of the Regional Council, in conjunction with similar initiatives at a national level. Under the arcades of Via Roma a few dozen people. “I am worried and angry about what they are doing to our land – reports Manuela Artizzu of Ultima Generazione -: they are destroying us and we are doing nothing to react”. Climate emergency and drought, the key themes of the protest.

“The climate and water crisis that afflicts Sardinia like Sicily, Catalonia and other parts of the Mediterranean has reached alert, if not emergency, levels: in Ogliastra and the Baronie – explain the Sardinian activists – water is being rationed. The extremely dry winter just ended and the increase in temperatures due to global warming have further aggravated the situation. This requires immediate government action aimed at reducing both water losses and emissions from climate-changing gases, as well as repairing the damage. present and future”. There were two appeals, the first in Rome: “We strongly ask the Italian government to establish a preventative, permanent and participatory repair fund, to be included annually in the state budget, to address the devastating consequences of drought, fires, floods and other events increasingly frequent climates, particularly on the islands”. The second SOS to the Region: “It is necessary that the Todde Council also acts urgently to address the ongoing climate and water crisis. First of all by curbing water losses in the networks which represent 52.8% and in absolute terms 129.2 million cubic meters”. Girls and boys then in procession with itinerant interventions up to Piazza Yenne and final assembly in front of the statue of Carlo Felice. (HANDLE). .