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Kids in 123 Countries Strike to Protect the Climate

“This movement had to happen, we didn’t have a choice.”

Via Vox

An estimated 1.4 million young people in 123 countries skipped school Friday to demand stronger climate policies in what may be one of the largest environmental protests in history.

Via The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

• https://thebulletin.org/2019/03/adults-wont-take-climate-change-seriously-so-we-the-youth-are-forced-to-strike/

Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike

By Maddy Fernands, Isra Hirsi, Haven Coleman, Alexandria Villaseñor | #USClimateStrike #YouthStrike4Climate

We, the youth of America, are fed up with decades of inaction on climate change. On Friday, March 15, young people like us across the United States will strike from school. We strike to bring attention to the millions of our generation who will most suffer the consequences of increased global temperatures, rising seas, and extreme weather. But this isn’t a message only to America. It’s a message from the world, to the world, as students in dozens of countries on every continent will be striking together for the first time...

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(The authors are lead organizers of US Youth Climate Strike, part of a global student movement inspired by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly school strikes in Sweden and European countries.)

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Planet Citizens

Time for Planet Citizen Action

Students Worldwide Are Striking to Demand Climate Action Change

Going Global: Student #ClimateStrike, March 15, 2019

• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/15/global-climate-strike-pictures-millions-students-walk-out-demand-planetary

The climate strikers should inspire us all to act at the next UN summit...

Without ambitious action, the Paris agreement is meaningless. So I’m bringing world leaders together to build the future we need.

António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/climate-strikers-urgency-un-summit-world-leaders

• #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming

• #ActOnClimate #SchoolsStrike4Climate #GretaThunberg

• #YouthForClimate #FridaysForFuture #GlobalStrikeforFuture

• #Klimaatstaking #ClimateJustice #SchoolStrike4Climate

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• https://www.fridaysforfuture.org/eventmap

• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/15/climate-strikers-letter-thank-you

• https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/15/global-climate-strike-pictures-millions-students-walk-out-demand-planetary

• https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/global-climate-strike-students-protest-climate-inaction-intl/index.html

• https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/03/15/schoolstrikeforclimate-comes-to-the-united-states/

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