The kids suing Donald Trump are marching to the White House

[IronLionZion]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/29/politics/sutter-climate-kids-march-washington/index.html

Washington (CNN)A 16-year-old walked up to the microphone.

"The state of the planet is unraveling all around us because of our addiction to fossil fuels," Xiuhtezcatl Martinez said at the steps of the US Supreme Court this week. "For the last several decades, we have been neglecting the fact that this is the only planet that we have and that the main stakeholders in this issue (of climate change) are the younger generation. Not only are the youth going to be inheriting every problem that we see in the world today -- after our politicians have been long gone -- but our voices have been neglected from the conversation.

"Our politicians are no longer representing our voices."

So, what's a voiceless kid to do?

How about sue President Donald Trump and his administration -- and then march to the White House?

Martinez is one of 21 young people taking Trump and members of his administration to federal court over inaction on global warming. On Saturday, several of these "climate kid' plaintiffs -- the youngest is 9 -- will walk alongside the chanting and sign-pumping adults at the March for Climate, Jobs and Justice in Washington. That demonstration is a call for a clean energy revolution, and it's expected to draw thousands. Perhaps fittingly, local forecasts call for potentially record-setting temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Demonstrators plan to converge on the White House.

Yes, it's easy to tire of protests in the Trump era, with this rally coming right on the heels of last week's March for Science and not so long after the Women's March. Talk is cheap. But these climate kids deserve your attention.

Climate Change!

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Surely Xiuhtezcatl will be popular in Freeperland

To 45, this ought to be Judge Curiel on steroids

[Sculpin Beauregard]

2. Now is not the time to tire of protests. These kids are Heroes!

More protests until this monstrous admin. are in handcuffs.

[Achilleaze]

3. Excelsior Xiuhtezcatl and American youths

Thank you for your wisdom and courage.

[2naSalit]

4. Absolutely amazing young leader!

Saw him online, somewhere a while back, I was floor by his intellect and eloquence. This young leader is one of the people who give this old person hope.

[JudyM]

5. That's great! The crisis goes beyond fuel, though: factory farming of animals is more

harmful to the environment, but the industries involved keep this info squelched.

[Ilsa]

6. I can't help it.

I'm looking forward to mar-a-larceny going under water. I wish it was only mar-a-larceny, tho.