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WORLD NEWS Saturday 30 March 2019

'I want snow for Christmas:' Students demand climate action

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands her short speech and left
of students skipped school the stage. Thunberg later
in Berlin Friday as part of a met with scientists at the
growing worldwide youth Potsdam Institute for Cli-
movement demanding mate Impact Research, just
faster action against cli- outside the German capi-
mate change. tal.
Carrying signs with slogans Some 26,000 scientists in
such as "I want snow for German-speaking coun-
Christmas" and "The climate tries have signed a call in
is changing, why aren't support of the protesting
we?", the demonstrators students in recent weeks.
gathered in a park near the "The young people are
capital's main train station right to say that this is about
before marching through intergenerational justice,"
the government district. said the Potsdam Institute's
Police estimated the size director, Johan Rockstrom.
of the crowd at more than "Science clearly shows that
20,000. climate action today, or
Swedish teenager Greta the lack thereof, defines
Thunberg, who inspired the world our children and
the protests in Germany grandchildren will have to
and elsewhere by stag- Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends the 'Friday For Future' rally in Berlin, Germany, live in."
ing weekly "school strikes," Friday, March 29, 2019. The Berlin rally was one of
headlined the demonstra- Associated Press more than 20 being held
tion, joining others at the around the country.
rally shouting: "What do crowd that "older genera- just pat us on our heads ic I mean stepping out of Protester Gabriele Konra-
we want? Climate justice. tions have failed tackling and say everything will be our comfort zones because di brought her 7-year-old
When do we want it? Now!" the biggest crisis humanity fine, don't worry," she said. when you're in a crisis you daughter Valerie to the
Later, taking the stage in has ever faced." "But we should worry — we change your behavior." protest and they were part
front of the landmark Bran- "When we say to them we should panic — and by The crowd applauded of a group holding signs like
denburg Gate, the 16-year- are worried about the fu- panic I don't mean running wildly and chanted "Greta, "change the system, not
old told the animated ture of our civilization, they around screaming; by pan- Greta" as she wrapped up the climate."q

Amid gripes, Louvre pyramid celebrates 30 years with collage

By THOMAS ADAMSON time JR has worked his art amid complaints they Franck Riester, feted the palace. The Guangzhou-
Associated Press around Paris' most visited couldn't see any optical il- anniversary in a confer- born architect was also
PARIS (AP) — In a feat museum after making it lusion from the ground at ence inside the museum accused of being insuffi-
of optical illusion, French "disappear" in 2016 with all. Some even accused Friday evening. ciently French by some in
street artist JR completed a a black and white photo the art of elitism, saying The Louvre's pyramid, de- the media.
collage Friday that plunges trick. they were disappointed signed by Chinese-Ameri- But with the passage of
the Louvre's pyramid into It had Louvre President that the only way to appre- can architect I. M. Pei and time, the uncommonly-
a vast chasm to mark the Jean-Luc Martinez en- ciate the installation was inaugurated on March 29, shaped lattice structure
famed glass structure's 30- thused. to get a special VIP pass to 1989, has often been the has won its detractors —
year anniversary. "It magnifies this iconic view it from a balcony. target of complaints or and tourists — over.
The temporary ground col- monument... I was immedi- The Louvre defended the controversy. Chinese engineer Yuan
lage made of paper strips, ately seduced," he said. choice by saying an aerial The monument was initially Chen, 30, brushed off criti-
when viewed from above, But instead of transporting view of the work would be likened to "sacrilege" as cism that a China-born ar-
gives the famed 21-meter- attendees at Friday's open- projected to the public by some thought the modern- chitect shouldn't have de-
high (nearly 70-foot-high) ing to an imagined land- two plasma screens in the ist edifice was at odds with signed Paris' second most
structure dizzying added scape, it seemed to leave courtyard. Officials, includ- the classic Renaissance recognizable peak.q
depth, and is the second many very unseduced ing French Culture Minister style of Paris' most prized