"We were on the streets today with tens of thousands of people and showed that people do not want to remain passive in the face of the escalating climate crisis, while the federal government is unable to implement concepts for socially just climate policy," said Annika Rittmann of Fridays for Future Germany.
"With the bad floods that we have seen, you have to draw the connection that they are simply more frequent due to climate change," Sebastian Bock, a demonstrator in Berlin, told the AFP news agency.
The Fridays for Future movement was born out of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg's weekly student protests in 2018.
Since Thunberg started her protest six years ago, the Earth has warmed more than 0.29 degrees Celsius (0.5 degrees Fahrenheit), according to European climate agency Copernicus and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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