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Students strike for climate change, defying calls to stay in school ABC News
Source: ABC News
Playing hooky to save the climate: why students are striking on March 15
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, has inspired kids in more than 112 countries to skip school.
There's this article at Vox too:
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/21/18233206/march-15-climate-strike
Read more: https://m.
Many adults can't conceptualize that there is more going on than political horse races and football. Well these students want to wake us up because THERE'S AN ENTIRE PLANET THAT IS DYING. So three cheers for the students!!!!
AND they're protesting all over the world.
UPDATE: Turns out the New Zealand Mosque shooting just now was horrifyingly magnified because dozens of students were assembled in the area to draw attention to global warming.