We didn’t start the fire: Teens around the world launch a strike for climate change

Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, has had enough. 

Greta Thunberg - she's had enough.

Climate change is happening, and she wants the people in power to do something about it. She’s not alone. 

Thousands of kids echo her fear for the future. They’re planning a global strike from school on Friday, March 15, to show it. When asked, “What’s the one most important message they want the world to hear,” this is how 10 so-called Climate Kids replied:

Read the Post Bulletin story by Mary Ellis Stevens - “We didn’t start the fire: Teens around the world launch a strike for climate change.”

‘Belongs in a museum': Greta Thunberg condemns politician against school strike

The Swedish teenager whose lone protest against climate change spurred a global youth movement has told an Australian state education minister his words “belong in a museum” after he warned students against attending an upcoming protest.

 Since Thunberg’s lone protest outside the Swedish parliament,
student-led climate marches have been held around the world.

The New South Wales education minister, Rob Stokes, appeared on Sky News earlier this week, warning students and teachers against attending rallies planned across Australia for Friday 15 March, as part of the school climate strike movement.

“These are on school days, school children on school days should be at school,” Stokes said during an interview with the Sky News host Chris Kenny.

“You simply can’t strike if you don’t have a job … the law is very clear, this is a notified school day, kids should be at school.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Josephine Tovey - “‘Belongs in a museum': Greta Thunberg condemns politician against school strike.”

The Climate Kids Are Coming

If you don’t know who Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is, you can think of her as an international climate-change counterpart to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Like the rock-star congresswoman from New York, Thunberg is a charismatic young woman whose social-media savvy, moral clarity, and fearless speaking truth to power have inspired throngs of admirers to take to the streets for a better world and call out the politicians and CEOs who are standing in the way.

Greta Thunberg speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos.

Ocasio-Cortez, 29, is known for championing the #GreenNewDeal and schooling right-wing haters on Twitter. Thunberg, 16, is known for launching the #SchoolStrike4Climate movement—tens of thousands of high-school students worldwide are skipping school on Fridays until their governments treat the climate crisis as an emergency—and for torching billionaires and heads of state at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.

Read the story from The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard  - “The Climate Kids Are Coming.”