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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington and Damien Gayle

Climate activists vow to take to streets to stop fossil fuel extraction

Greta Thunberg
Greta Thunberg speaks during a protest against the expansion of RWE's Garzweiler opencast lignite mine in Lützerath, Germany, on 14 January. Photograph: Thilo Schmülgen/Reuters

Hundreds of thousands of young climate activists have said they will continue “protesting in the streets in huge numbers” against fossil fuels, a day after Greta Thunberg was removed by German police from a condemned village atop a massive coal deposit.

In a cease-and-desist letter to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies, youth campaigners accuse them of a “direct violation of our human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, your duties of care, as well as the rights of Indigenous people”.

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