“Governments have ignored the scientists who’ve warned that we’re heading for catastrophe for decades. That’s why so many are now engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience as a last-ditch effort.”

The senator has proposed amendments that would impose conditions on funding for the “highly profitable” microchip industry and eliminate a $10 billion bailout to Jeff Bezos’ space company

Rep. Ilhan Omar similarly said on the House floor that “it would mean the beginning of World War III.”

Demonstrators’ key demands are: “Stop the war in Ukraine. Russian troops out. No to NATO expansion.”

“There simply has to be a negotiated settlement to avert more terrible suffering and lethal escalation.”

“This is an eye-opening moment for humanity to see that the world is aflame with new and old wars caused by fossil fuels,” said Fridays for Future. “People only desire to live and exist safely.”

As Congress considers spending $6.4 billion or more, William D. Hartung suggests that “the bulk of new funding should be for humanitarian aid, not guns and troops”

“The science and the politics of the climate crisis are very clear: We cannot build any new fossil fuel projects and still expect to meet the challenge of protecting a livable planet.”

“This is an unprecedented atrocity, for which there is no and cannot be any justification,” said nearly 200 officials from cities across Russia

“Their investments in the fossil fuel industry—an industry whose actions place the health and future of students and the entire planet at risk—amount to nothing less than complicity in the climate crisis.”