Islamabad September 18 (Online): The green-belt in front of Karachi Press Club was full of pairs of shoes kept in an orderly way for a shoe-strike organized by a group of around 40 young climate change activists from all over Pakistan.
The organizers of the strike aged between 16 and 17 years were carrying placards and banners in their hands which said” The Karachi floods were no mistake; The climate crisis is happening now; wake up; Step up; Act now.
And the shoes had posters next to them as well, saying, it’s now or never. And there is no planet B. Covid-19 meant that people did not want to gather in large groups to protest, and therefore, people left their shoes there instead of actually being present.
A shoe strike is a novel idea in the age of Covid-19 said Hania Imran, one of the organizers of the strike.
The Young activists held this strike to demand the government not only to acknowledge the symptom of the problem, but the actual problem itself. Meaning they not only help when the floods have happened, but stop the floods from actually happening in the first palace.
They questioned why it has gotten to this point and why here is still no proper action being taken, bot by big corporations, our government and big carbon emitting countries.
They believed it was not just the job of the ministry of climate change, but the entire government itself. They felt their future was being destroyed in front of their eyes
