Global Climate Strike: Powerful Signs That Today’s Youth Are Standing Their Ground

There is no planet B,” read a student protestor’s sign in Kiev, Ukraine. “How long can you stand the heat?” questioned another sign in Washington, D.C. “I am ditching school because you are ditching our future,” read a poster board in Manila, Philippines.

Around the world today, millions of people took to the streets to protest policy makers’ inaction in combatting climate change. Student protestors from more than 150 countries skipped school as part of the Global Climate Strike, held just days before international leaders will convene at the United Nations for the Climate Action Summit.

With a second worldwide strike planned for Sept. 27, these powerful protests represent a unified front from the very individuals who stand to lose the most from climate change: today’s youth. As a student protestor’s sapient sign in Birmingham, U.K. noted, “If you don’t start acting like adults … I will.

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Students in the U.K. crowded the streets as Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn praised the young activists for bringing the discussion of climate change to the “center stage.”
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Demonstrators in England made their voices heard. FridaysForFuture, the international movement behind the school strikes, plans another wave of rallies next week.
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Climate change march in Washington, D.C.
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