"Warning! Soon our planet will be as hot as Channing Tatum."
While Trump and his violent, hate-filled minions create more mayhem in New Zealand, we are being distracted by something far more productive and important:
By Harmeet Kaur and Madison Park, CNN
Posted at 12:41 AM ET, Fri March 15, 2019
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/03/15/world/climate-strike-students/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
It's the Global Climate Strike and students are walking out of classrooms in over 100 countries to protest climate inaction.
They say their governments have failed future generations by not cutting emissions and curbing global warming
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"Governments of the world have to wake up"
Thousands of young people have [also] gathered in Luxembourg City, singing, dancing and listening to speeches.
We strike to express our dissatisfaction with current large-scale inaction on climate change, says Zelie Guisset, from Youth for Climate Luxembourg.
To show we are gravely concerned about the world we will live our future lives in. To demand that treating the climate crisis as the crisis it is. Hoping that our strike will urge and pressure politicians or other people in power to take the urgent action needed to solve this climate crisis.
Thirty years of small individual acts and everyone does their bit has not worked. Governments of the world have to wake up."
underpants
(182,988 posts)Channing Tatum is waiting for you at the finish line ... with a puppy.
ancianita
(36,201 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)DU cares about our future! Finally found another mention of the global climate marches:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017535355#post1
Here's the Guardian article mentioned on that post:
Climate strike: US students walk out of classes as part of global protest live
Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, rally on 15 March to press politicians to act on climate change. Climate strikes take place in more than 100 countries. Tens of thousands of children and young people in more than 100 countries have gone on strike to challenge politicians to take decisive action on climate change.
From small actions, like that of students who went on strike for the first time across India, to large demonstrations in the UK, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Sweden and Australia, the strike for climate action spread across more than 2,000 events.
The co-ordinated strikes were organised via social media by volunteers in the countries under the banner of Fridays for Future.
In India, more than 200 children walked out of classes in Delhi to protest against inaction on tackling climate change, and similar protests took place on a smaller scale in 30 towns and cities. Vidit Baya, 17, who is in his last year at MDS public school in Udaipur, said: In India no one talks about climate change. You dont see it on the news, or in the papers or hear about it from government.
sandensea
(21,711 posts)And guess where all those 170 million souls will have to live.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Get thee to the greatest page
littlemissmartypants
(22,850 posts)I assure you, we care.
ancianita
(36,201 posts)support your claim that Thirty years of small individual acts and everyone does their bit has not worked."
This book should get the Pulitzer.
Candidates are waking up and that's a Big Deal toward making governments do the same.
barbtries
(28,817 posts)can the rest of the world go on without us? because we seem content to let the planet die.