Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
Politicians around the world are mostly concerned with wars, immigration troubles, terrorism, and how to get re-elected the next time they’re due to campaign.
The kids of the world, though, have a different agenda – and although many of them are still too young to vote, they’re not letting that stop them from telling politicians their concerns for the future.
Last week, kids around the globe ditched a day of school in an effort to call attention to the lack of attention paid to the looming climate crisis.Which makes sense, because these kids are going to be the ones holding the proverbial bag when the harrowing effects of climate change create a brave new world – and guess what? They’ve had enough of the adults who are supposed to be “leading” totally ignoring their future.
On Friday March the 15th well over 1,5 million students went on school strike for the climate. We proved that it does matter what you do and that no one is too small to make a difference. Today I have written another response to the hate, to the critics and to the people who wants us to go back to school. Link in bio/Facebook #FridayForFuture #SchoolStrike4Climate
A post shared by Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) on Mar 17, 2019 at 8:56am PDT
There’s a growing global movement now, but it all started with one Swedish teenager with Asperger’s syndrome. Greta Thunberg (and her awesome pigtails) first protested outside the parliament building in Stockholm in August 2018, where she handed out flyers with climate facts on them. She kept it up, protesting every friday, week after week, and eventually she started to gain some notice. After she was invited to address climate officials gathered in Poland, her #FridaysForFuture campaign started to take off like a lightning fire all over the globe.
In Poland, she said “You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes. Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what’s politically possible, there is no hope. We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis.”
Kids in London, Hamburg, Brussels, and gathered in massive crowds last week to echo Thunberg’s message: do something about climate change, and do it now. It was kids around the globe who helped organize last weeks protest – the biggest one yet, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in more than 100 countries.
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