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RSS FeedsMillions expected to protest for climate action Friday. Here´s why that might be a `watershed moment´ in the climate movement
(The Star Business)

 
 

19 september 2019 22:35:41

 
Millions expected to protest for climate action Friday. Here´s why that might be a `watershed moment´ in the climate movement
(The Star Business)
 


Millions of young people are expected to take to the streets around the world Friday to demand more aggressive climate action from leaders in what many observers are calling a tipping point for the climate change movement.From New York City to London, England to Cape Town, South Africa, citizens will walk out of their schools and workplaces to join youth-led climate strikes designed to thrust climate change to the top of every government agenda.Inspired by 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who last August began skipping school to protest in front of her country’s parliament building, the strikes are part of the lead-up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York City on Monday. Thunberg will lead Friday’s strikes from New York before addressing the summit, convened by U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to encourage nations to meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement. The strikes, expected to be the largest demonstrations demanding climate action in history, could pressure governments to drastically curb global carbon emissions.“With millions of people pouring into the streets to demand emergency climate action and to demonstrate collective grief over climate breakdown, this is definitely a watershed moment,” said Tina Yeonju Oh, a climate activist who in 2017 was named one of Canada’s top environmentalists under 25.“It’s so powerfully necessary for people to take back public spaces, like the streets, and to demand that we can’t do business as usual, because frankly business as usual is destroying the planet.”More than 3,500 events in 150 countries are planned for Friday. In New York City, the Department of Education has given permission to 1.1 million public school students to skip school to join that city’s protest, one of more than 800 events happening in the U.S. alone. Further strikes are planned for Sept. 27, including in Toronto, Vancouver and Montr ...


 
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