Fridays for Future meets Black Friday

28 November 2019

A recent article of Deutschlandfunk deals with the fact that tomorrows Black Friday will cross the day of the “4.th Global Climate Strike” of the Fridays for Future movement. In an interview which was published by Deutschlandfunk Sighard Neckel discusses the different trends of our consumer society and gives an overview what can be learned by the United States.

The whole interview ist published here. (it is in german)

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