The Students for Future now also exist at our university. Today you can find out who they are, what their goals are and what activities they have planned so far.
Students have been taking to the streets as part of the FridaysforFuture movement since December 2018. They are fighting for their future. They are calling on governments to meet the agreed targets of the Paris Climate Agreement and to back them up with concrete measures. Consistent climate protection to reduce man-made global warming to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels.
But not only schoolchildren: inside see their future in danger. More and more people feel threatened by the consequences of the climate crisis. Other groups, such as Scientists4Future, Farmers4Future and Students4Future, have formed in solidarity with the FFF movement.
In October 2020, Alexander Hilse (WKb20) and Phil Sieben (SHb20), among others, founded "Students4Future Zittau & Görlitz", a platform for students who are committed to climate protection and want to get involved regionally. To find out more about the group, I attend one of their regular plenary meetings on a Monday evening at 8pm - online, of course.
Alexander Hilse, one of the founders, explains to me:
"The basic goal of our group is to effectively work towards meeting the 1.5degree limit by initiating educational and practical climate action and trying to get politically involved in university and community climate issues through various avenues."
These are ambitious goals, I think, and I am curious to see what actions will follow. I quickly realize that the group has already shown a lot of activism in the past month.
Under the current conditions of the pandemic, creativity is needed to ensure that the climate crisis is not forgotten. Many formats and votes are therefore taking place in virtual space. As a first action, the "S4F Group Görlitz, Zittau" is organizing the puplic viewing of the "Puplic Climate School" in the canteen at the Görlitz site. The initiative, which now has 17 participants, is also planning joint activities with the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz on the topic of species extinction and is participating in University4Future with the aim of achieving a "climate-neutral university". So we can look forward to seeing what else will follow.
If you are also interested in the "Students for Future", please feel free to drop by the next plenum on Monday, December 7, 2020 at 8:00 p.m. in the BBB room of the S4F(https://talk.fffutu.re/b/lei-4nk-tvx ) or contact your Instagram account if you have any questions.
Theresa Liebich