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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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 16 2019, @05:39PM (1 child)
Butbutbutbut MUH FREE MARKET! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA AND FREEDOM YOU FUCKIN' COMMIE?! Which is basically what we're told whenever we point that out. I have no idea how this happened; maybe it's just greed being that powerful and ignorance being that pervasive.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday March 17 2019, @11:25AM
Corporations are the result of the free market like the corrupt bureaucrat is the result of socialism. The probably intended result, in fact there seem not to be a moment when free market exists before big interests, or when socialism exists before a statal bureaucracy. The french revolutionaries had their red hat (o look ancient religious symbol) from day 0.
Democracy? What do you mean? When we the people say "do one thing" and representatives conform? Just look at brexit. Just don't look at the 90% yea to the abolition of subsidies to political parties in Italy (if you find problems in determining the year, we voted in 78 93 and 00). Did that stop the subsidies? YES They are now called reimbursements.
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