This month, hundreds of children are going on strike from school to demand urgent action on climate change. From rural Victoria to Townsville, we are walking out of school for a day or more to tell our politicians to listen to us and protect our futures.
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| School students protest inaction by the Australian government on climate change outside Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday. Children are striking all over the country this month. |
We are Milou, Jean and Harriet and we are 14 years old.
Two of us – Milou and Harriet – live in rural Victoria. Throughout our lives, we’ve witnessed the impacts that drought, bushfires and extreme weather have on a community. We have been forced to evacuate when a bushfire came through our town. It was scary. But it is something that will happen more and more as climate change gets worse.
Read the opinion piece from The Guardian - “Climate change is the biggest threat to our futures, not striking from school.”
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