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      Activists hold placards during a "'Global Climate Strike'' organized by the Fridays for Future movement in New Delhi, India on March 3, 2023. ​

      'Tomorrow Is Too Late': Climate Strikers Target Fossil Fuel Financing Worldwide

      "The capitalistic system continuously puts profit over people," says Fridays for Future. "The Global North's fossil finance is the cause of the climate crisis, neocolonial exploitation, wars, and human rights violations."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 03, 2023

      "It's time to end fossil finance because #TomorrowIsTooLate!"

      That's the takeaway message from climate strikers who took to the streets worldwide on Friday to demand an immediate end to the financing of all fossil fuel projects amid a worsening global emergency largely driven by coal, gas, and oil.

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