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Across the world Friday, students skipped class to protest their governments failure to take sufficient measures to curb climate change.
It all started with 16 year old Greta Thunberg of Sweden:
who began holding solitary demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament last year. Since then, the weekly protests have snowballed from a handful of cities to hundreds, fueled by dramatic headlines about the impact of climate change during the students' lifetime.
Thunberg has been nominated for a Nobel peace prize for her efforts.
The protestors are calling for a list of anti-climate change actions and solutions including:
Our Demands
- Green New Deal
- A halt in any and all fossil fuel infrastructure projects
- All decisions made by the government be based on the best-available and most-current scientific research.
- Declaring a National Emergency on Climate Change
- Compulsory comprehensive education on climate change and its impacts throughout grades K-8
- Preserving our public lands and wildlife
- Keeping our water supply clean
Our Solutions
- The extraction of Greenhouse Gases from the atmosphere
- Emission standards and benchmarks
- Changing the agriculture industry
- Using renewable energy and building renewable energy infrastructure
- Stopping the unsustainable and dangerous process of fracking
- Stop mountaintop removal/mining
In a speech Friday outside the United Nations HQ in New York, Alexandria Villasenor, one of the founders of Youth Climate Strike U.S. said:
world leaders weren't listening. "Our world leaders are the ones acting like children," she said. "They are the ones having tantrums, arguing with each other and refusing to take responsibility for their actions while the planet burns."
At one of these planned protests a year or two back, permission forms were sent home in advance so kids could get parental permission to participate in skipping school and protesting. Kids who didn't participate were taunted and harassed by the other kids.
How does your school treat such events?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 16 2019, @11:22AM (5 children)
"How old are you?" Dianne.
"I’m 16. I can’t vote." The girl.
"Well, you didn’t vote for me." Dianne again. foxnews.com/politics/dianne-feinstein-scolds-kids-who-pushed-her-to-back-green-new-deal-i-know-what-im-doing [foxnews.com]
Green New Deal, by the way, check the Price Tag on that one. $93 trillion according to our American Action Forum. Lot of money. And we just did the biggest Tax Cut in history, where's the money. Oh, we left it in the pockets of the American Companies (& People). Sorry!
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday March 16 2019, @11:47AM (1 child)
(cont) By the way, the Link. Where they have the Itemized Break Down of the $. And its so much money it might litterally break our Dollar. The biggest Items being the Guaranteed Jobs costing up to $44.6 trillion. And, the Universal Health Care costing $36 trillion. americanactionforum.org/research/the-green-new-deal-scope-scale-and-implications [americanactionforum.org]
Very expensive and I'm doing those for a lot less. I've repealed burdensome regulations and instituted very tough Tarriffs, while lowering Taxes massively, allowing our magnificent Industries to create millions of jobs.
And I'm working with our best people in Congress to pass the Universal Health. That one is going to be called Trumpcare. It's going to be like what they have in Canada. What they have in U.K. But, without the horrible taxes they have. Same thing, a lot less money -- it's what we do. Need to get that one through very quickly. Because ObamaCare is imploding FAST!!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @04:25PM
Wow...all this for your Eiserner Vorhang.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 16 2019, @11:55AM (1 child)
Yep. The cost was $30 trillion ten years ago. And the cost will be $300 trillion ten years from now. Who's gonna pick up that tab?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Saturday March 16 2019, @02:41PM
How about we don't do that? Instead, let's rationally look at what works and what doesn't. For example, US society works great, despite repeated claims to the contrary. It's not going to work any better, if we drop into full austerity mode because we borrowed far more than we already have.
And how about instead we take a hard look at our spending, cut back on the corporate welfare crap, the reverse-Robin Hood entitlements (like Social Security and Medicare) that take from the needier, and the regulations that impose far more cost than benefit? I think that'll have a far better price tag and benefit than the Green New Deal will.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 17 2019, @12:30PM
> check the Price Tag on that one. $93 trillion
If this gets through, this is the highest allowance for kids on record, ever. Wow.
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