The 16-year-old is determined to achieve radical action on climate change.Marshalled by An Garda Síochána and stewards wearing Extinction Rebellion hi-vis jackets, around 100 teenagers from the Fridays For Future and Schools Climate Action Network set off from Stephen's Green towards Leinster House.
Beth felt she needed to act after reading the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which found Ireland has 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe."But then you read that report and you're like ok, well this is going to affect me and literally everyone in the world," she said.She thinks the declaration of a climate emergency is brilliant for public image but "not so brilliant for the planet unless you actually do something about it".
"With ten years to go until it’s unsolvable, it is no longer enough. Leo Varadkar referred to it as a nudge. We don't need a nudge. We need a shove. We need extreme structural change," she said.The 16-year-old Swedish climate activist rose to international attention after she began protesting outside her country's parliament building last year.
Similar messages were found in the chants outside Leinster House: "No coal! No oil! Keep carbon in the soil!"
Good news is daddy picked her up in the Range Rover sport just in time for dinner !! Popping into the Apple store tomorrow to get the latest iPhone ...
This is what a Mania looks like.
Sure I remember believing that the world would be a better place if Russia was the dominant power when I was 16
Like what exactly?
How about we do the traditional thing and leave the adults make the decisions?
Radically indoctrinated gobshytes want to be pauperized and screwed .
They want to prove they could organise a protest outside the school year and they attracted 100. More evidence if needed that this whole movement is being organised by a few left wing teacher who have probably flown to the other side of the planet for the summer.
People should stop feeding lies to children and frightening them in order to use them. One child on the Late Late stated that they would be dead in 11 years if there wasn't action on climate change. We do need to make changes but stop scaremongering.
Emm , be there still charging there phones , I pad , x boxes , every night before bedtime , and then spend all day taking selfies and liking there own shite on instagram
UK plans to spend 1 trillion pounds by 2050 to go to zero carbon...They predict this will lower global temp by 0.05C...EU has similiar plans...Young people in Britian want them to do this by 2025...As if Brexit was not an insane enought idea already for British economy...
If advocates are going to use children, then please give them the full truthful facts about climate
Get back to school