Students worldwide walk out of school, protest climate change inaction by governments

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From Sydney to London, students gathered in the ‘Fridays4Future’ protests started by 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, who was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize

People take part in a demonstration against climate change organised by 'Youth For Climate' on March 15, 2019, in Brussels.From Sydney to London, thousands of school students walked out of classes on Friday in a global student strike to protest against government inaction on climate change.

In London, thousands of students marched from Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square holding banners reading “The future is in our hands” and “We’re missing lessons to teach you one.” “As youths who will inherit the land, we gather here to demand that the government work with us to solve these problems,” said 17-year-old Thiti Usanakul, of student-led group Grin Green International.

In Singapore, where strict laws regulate public assembly, young people planned a virtual campaign on social media.New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who has pledged NZ$100 million to cut greenhouse gas emissions, supports the strikes, saying teenagers should not wait for voting age to use their voices.

 

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While the movement leaders fly around in their jets

Anything for a day off and to get an early start on the March break vacation with mom and dad to warmer clims by way of a carbon spewing jet

Child abuse, plain and simple.

Definitive proof that kids are learning nothing in schools!! Humans DO NOT control the climate!!

Have a look at Ezra street on st. Patrick day after these so call environmentalists are through partying. That’s in Kitchener Waterloo.

DO THEY NOT TAKE SCIENCE ANY MORE ! CARBON IS THE THING THAT ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET HAS TO HAVE TO SURVIVE AND THEY WANT TO TAKE IT AWAY . DUMB ! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLIMATE CHANGE . WE JUST HAD ONE OF THE COLDEST WINTERS ON RECORD DOES THAT MEAN AN ICE AGE IS COMING !

Air quality in Canada is as good as it gets. Canada doesn’t have a pollution problem, China does. cdnpoli

Air quality in China is toxic and hazardous. Canada doesn’t have a pollution problem, China does. cdnpoli

Brainwashed!

Young, gullible, and easily led by the hand

Products of brainwashing. Poor young people. They gonna use the ideology to tax you all for the remaining of your life.

not sure any of these students are worthy of education___no doctors accountants professionals in view___world wide walkout of zombies.......bottom feeders basement dwellers and loathsome drug addicts and on the doll

So my municipal tax dollar is still paying for schools when students decide to play hooky? Withdraw the money for those dsys. fordnation cathmckenna

Thankfully my children haven't been brainwashed by the fear mongers

I mean it’s only their lives and futures on the line.. but give the right wing a chance to call them lazy, greedy, and/or ungrateful for their actions..

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