A Rising Generation Asserts Itself On Climate Change

Posted on AllSides September 20th, 2019
From The Left

Spurred by what they see as a sluggish, ineffectual response to the existential threat of global warming, student activists from around the world are skipping school Friday, for what organizers call a Global Climate Strike.

The young activists are protesting as the U.N. prepares to hold its Climate Action Summit on Monday in New York City.

The strike's figurehead is 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who traveled from Sweden to New York on an emissions-free sailboat. A little over a year ago, Thunberg began her school strike for the climate...

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https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/761916356/global-youth-climate-strike-expected-to-draw-large-crowds

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