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Three Years After Greta Thunberg’s Strike, Adults Are Failing Children on a Global Scale

Posted on AllSides August 19th, 2021
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Illustration by The New York Times; Photograph by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez\Stringer
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Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red for humanity,” said the United Nations secretary general.

It is — but young people like us have been sounding this alarm for years. You just haven’t listened.

On Aug. 20, 2018, one child staged a lone protest outside the Swedish Parliament, expecting to stay for three weeks. Tomorrow we will mark three years since Greta Thunberg’s strike. Even...

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