Greta Thunberg tells Congress to 'listen to the scientists' during testimony // We, the youth, are striking for the climate this Friday. By Katie Eder

Young climate activist Vic Barrett just gave opening remarks, warning of rising seas, in particular as a result of climate change. Barrett is a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit, Juliana v the US, that charges the federal government with violating the constitutional rights of youth by perpetuating systems that contribute to climate breakdown….

American youth activist Jamie Margolin has come steaming in with her prepared opening statement. She is suing her state, Washington, over climate change. “People who say we have a great future ahead are lying to my face,” she told the congressional hearing. She points out that the destruction already seen in the world from the climate crisis “will get worse” and her generation is being left a terrible legacy. “The government cannot even begin to imagine the size of the political shift that needs to happen to act on the climate crisis, she says. “The youth are calling for a new era altogether...we only have a few months left to transfer to a renewable energy economy. People call my generation Generation Z as if we are the last generation, but we are not, we are the GND Generation - the green new deal generation,” she said...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/sep/18/trump-greta-thunberg-news-today-live-latest-climate-change-testimony-updates

We, the youth, are striking for the climate this Friday. By Katie Eder

We, the young people organizing and participating in a global strike this Friday, will not sit around and allow ignorance and inertia to win. Global warming is raising temperatures worldwide in a more dramatic way than we've seen at any time in the past 2,000 years, according to a recent study published in Nature

While scientists at the United Nations say we may have a little over a decade to slow down the global rise in temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, others say we have far less time before we'll see devastating consequences. These will include a loss of fresh water for millions of people whose aquifers depend on rapidly melting glaciers, a collapse in fish population, and rising seas that will displace huge numbers of people, according to reporting from the news agency AFP which obtained a draft of a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change....

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