![]() “We are marching to make him see us – and to make him act on his promises. “We are marching to make it clear to President Biden that he is betraying the very youth who helped get him into office in the first place,” Bree Campbell, a 17-year-old organizer with New York City’s Fridays for Future chapter, said. Sunday’s march was organized in large part by youth-led climate groups, including Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement. “We can celebrate all of these policies that result in reductions but we also can’t erase them with increased oil and gas production.” In a recent Guardian interview, the Democratic congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez spoke about how the climate crisis “does not really care about the political complexities that we very much have to grapple with in our work. On Sunday protesters will demand an end to the approval of new oil and gas projects, a phasing out of fossil fuel drilling on public lands, the declaration of a federal climate emergency and support for workers as polluting industries are phased out – demands that have been endorsed by more than 500 organizations including the NAACP, the Sierra Club and the Sunrise Movement celebrities such as Jeremy Strong, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda and Mark Ruffalo and more than 400 scientists. Biden has been praised by climate activists for last year passing a historic $369bn climate law but also criticized for the approval of one of the largest oil drilling projects in recent decades, the Willow project in Alaska On Friday national security adviser Jake Sullivan said President Biden was not currently scheduled to take part in Wednesday’s UN climate summit.
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