Climate Change
"We can’t vote until we’re older, but we still have our own opinions.”
"There is no planet B."
Students across the world are walking out of school on Fridays to protest inaction over climate change. Many are inspired by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist who held the first school strike for climate outside the Swedish parliament. Thunberg is becoming known for her direct and clear manner, pointing to political maneuvering and economic growth as reasons that leaders are unwilling to take action to get climate change under control. She said to a room of world leaders at the Cop24 Climate Conference, “You are not mature enough to tell it like is. Even that burden you leave to us children. But I don't care about being popular. I care about climate justice and the living planet.”
Students aren’t striking because we want to miss school. We are striking because we care. Because it is our futures at stake. Because we have the most to lose of any generation.
Our children recognise that they are living through a climate emergency. They are striking today because they know we cannot carry on as normal.
Young people across the world are missing a day of school and college to protest global warming.
Harrison Ford took a swipe at President Donald Trump as he delivered an impassioned speech about the immediate consequences of climate change, at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Researchers say plummeting populations could threaten human existence if left unchecked.
Climate change is often placed as an issue to tackle in the future, but the health effects of these environmental shocks and stressors can be observed already today