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20 minutes – Activists demonstrate against planes

The Swiss are invited to give up the plane in 2020. By a human chain on New Years the Zurich-Kloten airport, a hundred activists from the Climate Strike and the Extinction Rebellion transmitted this message occasion of the first action led this year by their movements.

Despite all the debate on the climate that marked the past year, the use of airplanes has never reached such a level in Switzerland, the two organizations said on Wednesday in a press release. Air traffic in this country is at least responsible for almost a fifth of the human impact on climate change, they say.

In Zurich, the demonstrators wore masks on their mouths on which were written names of places on the plant victims of fort fires or smog. Their action, which took place peacefully, was however not authorized. It would have been conditional on the number of participants not exceeding 25 individuals, report to the two organizations in their joint press release.

(Nxp / ats)

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