Swiss climate activists plan to keep gluing themselves to roads

Climate activists in Switzerland plan to continue to glue themselves to roads, unlike campaigners in neighbouring Germany who say they will give up this protest method. The activist group Renovate Switzerland says it will continue to use this direct method due to "the inaction and slowness of political decisions" in Switzerland. "We are aware of the new strategy adopted by the Letzte Generation movement [in Germany], but we will not be following it,” Renovate Switzerland told Keystone-ATS on Tuesday. According to the German newspaper Bild, German climate activists intend to concentrate on street occupations, disruptions at political events and targeted attacks with a direct link to the climate crisis. Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, will be left in peace. + Climate activists disrupt concert in Lucerne Letzte Generation in Germany and Renovate Switzerland are part of the same A22 Network and pursue the same objective of saving the planet, Renovate Switzerland adds. But...