How a 7th Grader’s Strike Against Climate Change Exploded Into a Movement

Every week since December, the seventh-grader has made a pilgrimage to the United Nations’ headquarters demanding action on climate change. She is one of a cadre of young, fierce and mostly female activists behind the School Strike 4 Climate movement. On March 15, with the support of some of the world’s biggest environmental groups, tens of thousands of kids in at least two dozen countries and nearly 30 U.S. states plan to skip school to protest.

Alexandria Villasenor, 13, skips school to strike in front of
the United Nations, with signs reading: “School Strike 4
 Climate” and “Cop24 Failed Us. 

On the ninth Friday of her strike, 13-year-old Alexandria Villasenor wakes to a dozen emails, scores of Twitter notifications and good news from the other side of the planet: Students in China want to join her movement.

Their demands are uncompromising: Nations must commit to cutting fossil-fuel emissions in half in the next 10 years to avoid catastrophic global warming.

Read the story from The Washington Post by Sarah Kaplan - “How a 7th Grader’s Strike Against Climate Change Exploded Into a Movement.”