Northern Utah youth join nationwide climate strike, third major demonstration of local youth movement
(WorldNews Environment)

OGDEN - Raquel Juarez participated in a climate strike for the 38th time Friday afternoon. Juarez started striking the Friday after March 15, 2019, the date of the first global youth climate strike, while she was a senior at Ben Lomond High School. She has demonstrated every week since then at the Utah State Capitol. She was inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who was 16 when she led that first global youth climate strike in March. Thunberg had been missing school every Friday since August 2018 to demonstrate outside the Swedish Parliament, calling for leaders to take more radical action to reduce emissions and limit climate change. `I´d always been passionate about the climate, but...