Thousands of people gathered in Paris, France on March 12, 2022 to draw attention to the climate crisis and social injustice amid the presidential election campaign. (Photo: Esra Taskin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Mar 14, 2022
In addition to earning four Oscar nominations, "Don't Look Up"--Adam Mckay and David Sirota's political satire about elite indifference and profiteering in the face of imminent but preventable catastrophe--inspired tens of thousands of people in multiple cities across France to march this past weekend at "Look Up" rallies to demand climate action.
Equipped with banners and signs--including one that asked, "When are we going to talk about it?"--large numbers of people throughout France hit the streets. There were 80,000 demonstrators nationwide, with 32,000 in Paris alone, according to organizers.
\u201cThousands of people marched in Paris to call for climate action ahead of France\u2019s presidential election next month\u201d— Reuters (@Reuters) 1647219000
In Mckay and Sirota's Netflix hit, astronomers who discover a comet that is poised to end life on Earth struggle in vain to get corporate-funded politicians and media outlets to take their evidence-backed warnings seriously, let alone do what is necessary to avert a calamitous collision.
Saturday's protests, which came less than a month before the start of the French presidential election, called on lawmakers to confront the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that threatens to make large swaths of the planet uninhabitable.
As Agence France-Presse reported, "The climate crisis took up only 1.5% of talking points in media coverage of the election campaign from February 28 to March 6, a recent survey by climate justice NGOs has found."
In the northern city of Lille, Lydie Lampin Bernand told AFP that "I'm only 34 years old, and even I've seen the planet slapped in the face with a shovel."
"We have to protect the land we'll leave to our children," she added.
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Kenny Stancil
Kenny Stancil is senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project and a former staff writer for Common Dreams.
In addition to earning four Oscar nominations, "Don't Look Up"--Adam Mckay and David Sirota's political satire about elite indifference and profiteering in the face of imminent but preventable catastrophe--inspired tens of thousands of people in multiple cities across France to march this past weekend at "Look Up" rallies to demand climate action.
Equipped with banners and signs--including one that asked, "When are we going to talk about it?"--large numbers of people throughout France hit the streets. There were 80,000 demonstrators nationwide, with 32,000 in Paris alone, according to organizers.
\u201cThousands of people marched in Paris to call for climate action ahead of France\u2019s presidential election next month\u201d— Reuters (@Reuters) 1647219000
In Mckay and Sirota's Netflix hit, astronomers who discover a comet that is poised to end life on Earth struggle in vain to get corporate-funded politicians and media outlets to take their evidence-backed warnings seriously, let alone do what is necessary to avert a calamitous collision.
Saturday's protests, which came less than a month before the start of the French presidential election, called on lawmakers to confront the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that threatens to make large swaths of the planet uninhabitable.
As Agence France-Presse reported, "The climate crisis took up only 1.5% of talking points in media coverage of the election campaign from February 28 to March 6, a recent survey by climate justice NGOs has found."
In the northern city of Lille, Lydie Lampin Bernand told AFP that "I'm only 34 years old, and even I've seen the planet slapped in the face with a shovel."
"We have to protect the land we'll leave to our children," she added.
Kenny Stancil
Kenny Stancil is senior researcher at the Revolving Door Project and a former staff writer for Common Dreams.
In addition to earning four Oscar nominations, "Don't Look Up"--Adam Mckay and David Sirota's political satire about elite indifference and profiteering in the face of imminent but preventable catastrophe--inspired tens of thousands of people in multiple cities across France to march this past weekend at "Look Up" rallies to demand climate action.
Equipped with banners and signs--including one that asked, "When are we going to talk about it?"--large numbers of people throughout France hit the streets. There were 80,000 demonstrators nationwide, with 32,000 in Paris alone, according to organizers.
\u201cThousands of people marched in Paris to call for climate action ahead of France\u2019s presidential election next month\u201d— Reuters (@Reuters) 1647219000
In Mckay and Sirota's Netflix hit, astronomers who discover a comet that is poised to end life on Earth struggle in vain to get corporate-funded politicians and media outlets to take their evidence-backed warnings seriously, let alone do what is necessary to avert a calamitous collision.
Saturday's protests, which came less than a month before the start of the French presidential election, called on lawmakers to confront the fossil fuel-driven climate emergency that threatens to make large swaths of the planet uninhabitable.
As Agence France-Presse reported, "The climate crisis took up only 1.5% of talking points in media coverage of the election campaign from February 28 to March 6, a recent survey by climate justice NGOs has found."
In the northern city of Lille, Lydie Lampin Bernand told AFP that "I'm only 34 years old, and even I've seen the planet slapped in the face with a shovel."
"We have to protect the land we'll leave to our children," she added.
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