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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 01:31 PM Mar 2019

Climate change protests on 3/15



https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/01/youth-climate-strikers-we-are-going-to-change-the-fate-of-humanity?fbclid=IwAR0lyD-g9ffqVo6clTCBPpRSXBmea374rSiAOkdSKlj-9eFli1-tT8QvTLo


The students striking from schools around the world to demand action on climate change have issued an uncompromising open letter stating: “We are going to change the fate of humanity, whether you like it or not.”

The letter, published by the Guardian, says: “United we will rise on 15 March and many times after until we see climate justice. We demand the world’s decision makers take responsibility and solve this crisis. You have failed us in the past. [But] the youth of this world has started to move and we will not rest again.”

The Youth Strikes for Climate movement is not centrally organised, so keeping track of the fast growing number of strikes is difficult, but many are registering on FridaysForFuture.org. So far, there are almost 500 events listed to take place on 15 March across 51 countries, making it the biggest strike day so far. Students plan to skip school across Western Europe, from the US to Brazil and Chile, and from Australia to Iran, India and Japan....more
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Climate change protests on 3/15 (Original Post) Skidmore Mar 2019 OP
Good. It is their world we are destroying. roamer65 Mar 2019 #1
"Their" parents Skidmore Mar 2019 #2

roamer65

(36,744 posts)
1. Good. It is their world we are destroying.
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 01:33 PM
Mar 2019

From 2012-2017...219 billion tons of Antarctic ice is melting each year.

Crops have lost 1/3 of their nutrition since 1950 with rising CO2 levels.

Read David Wallace-Wells book, “The Uninhabitable Earth”.

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