Greta Thunberg Instagram – Climate Strike Week 300. Today we strike outside Exportkreditnämnden (EKN) in solidarity with Congo together with @hope4kinshasa . We demand that EKN stops the collaboration with companies and mines committing human rights violations in DRC.
Climate justice means social justice. The people and nature of Congo are experiencing massive exploitation so that the companies responsible can make huge profits, and so that the rest of the world can buy electric cars and other electronic devices. Today, a large majority of the world’s cobalt comes from the Congo. A result of this is that people – including many children – are forced to work in slave-like conditions. This exploitation also leads to severe deforestation of the Congo rainforest, the world’s second largest rainforest.
Even countries like Sweden are complicit, since actors like EKN finance and make it possible for the situation to continue. They must take their responsibility, EKN must stop their collaborations with these companies!
The climate crisis cannot be solved by technical “solutions” based on inequality and exploitation of people and nature. No one is free until everyone is free! Justice for Congo!
#ClimateJusticeNow #FridaysForFuture #StopGreenwashing #ClimateStrike #JusticeForKongo #JusticeForCongo #PeopleNotProfit #FreeCongo | Posted on 17/May/2024 15:17:33
