Worldwide student strike over climate change

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Global Climate Strike: Students around the world protest climate inaction

Hmmm, so their goal is to give up on education? Seems like it's not well thought out. I feel it has more to do with the teachers versus the students, it's not like children can understand something as complicated as climate research. It's just another low level tactic from the left to try to force action rather than debate.

I heard something about it on the news. I didn't know it was worldwide though.

I hope they care about the climate and continue to care, and that they don't just see an easy way to skip boring school.

'Please, take mah taxes and spend it on ideas that don't work and help the rich get richer'.

Stuff like this doesn't happen organically. If it did there would be worldwide strikes about Yemen.

You go, Students of the World!

The young people are the ones who are going to be stuck with a wrecked planet. If their elders won't fix it, they have both the right and the obligation to take action.

Anyone who thinks students cannot effect change, never lived in the Vietnam era in America.

I don't really care to much for that argument because it takes away from the fact that people are trying to do something about it. Which shows the ignorance of students, protesting something they are basically ignorant of, and like I said, more than likely it is completely driven by the adults, not the children.

If teachers started teaching kids that we in the US should convert into a communist system and to start protesting in order to achieve it, would that insist that, good for them, we really need communism?

How dare we teach kids to want to protect the earth because it's their future at stake! That's so wrong-headed, ain't it?

Heatstroke does not care if you are a capitalist.

"Here's what that agenda includes for kids in the US, according to the Youth Climate Strike website:

a national embrace of the Green New Deal"

It seems that this is what's it's mainly about.

Taking one day to protest is hardly going to make any dent to their education...kind of exaggerating the impact



Going hysterical? the teachers had nothing to do with student protests, this started as a social media campaign no different from the "earth hour" campaign which successfully convinced millions to switch of lights for one hour.

As one child eloquently put it...we are the ones who inherit the mess from the current generation. Another child made the point that with a rise of 3 degrees there may not be a world to inherit for her or her children.

These issues don't interest old men in boardrooms who know they will be long dead by the time global temperatures reach risky levels and (yes) they dump it on the next generation. The kids have every right to ask governments to do something now to avoid this dark future.

If teachers were teaching unwanted facts regarding 'climate science' they'd lose their jobs.

unwanted?

Yep

According to 350.org there was 1.4 million students on school strike yesterday.
At 2083 places in 125 countries on all continents.

#fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate

I wonder how many of these students support nuclear power.

If they don't, they're part of the problem.

Edit:

Anti-nuclear movement is funded in part by the fossil fuel industry.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilvers ... ff0fe47453

And what are those unwanted "facts"? Facts so far overwhelmingly support the idea of a warming Earth.