Groups of Yellow Vests, climate marchers and young climate activists organized the “Spring of Change” in Verdun. Reporterre described a small turnout and a convergence that had not yet taken broad hold, but documented participants arguing that social and ecological crises were linked. The modest scale matters: solidarity was a contested organizing practice, not an automatic consequence of shared economic or environmental grievances.
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What did the Verdun “Spring of Change” reveal about climate convergence?
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Reporterre described a small event and an incomplete convergence.