Schoolchildren go on strike across world over climate crisis

Hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren across the world have gone on strike in protest at the escalating climate crisis.

Teenage protesters in Warsaw, Poland, hold up placards
calling on politicians to address climate crisis. 

Students from 1,800 towns and cities in more than 110 countries stretching from India to Australia and the UK to South Africa, walked out of lessons on Friday, the organisers of the action said.

This is the latest school climate strike, inspired by teenager Greta Thunberg, who has become a global figurehead since protesting outside Sweden’s parliament in 2018. The young people are demanding politicians take urgent action to avoid catastrophic ecological breakdown.

In London, thousands gathered in the sunshine in Parliament Square chanting, “Where the fuck is the government”, and “This is what democracy looks like”, before staging a sit-down protest outside the department of education.

Read the story from The Guardian by Matthew Tayor - “Schoolchildren go on strike across world over climate crisis.”