Hundreds of thousands of students join global climate strikes
Hundreds of thousands
of young people have taken to the streets from Manila to Copen-hagen as part of
the latest student climate strikes to demand radical action on the unfolding
ecological emergency. School and university
students around the world walked out of lessons on Friday with large turnouts
in Madrid, where world leaders will gather on Monday for the latest UN climate
summit, and Sydney, where protesters demanded action after devastating wildfires.
In London, crowds
called for the climate crisis to take centre stage in next month’s election and
condemned Boris Johnson for not taking part in Thursday night’s televised
climate debate. Millie Hedley, 17,
from Watford, said: “I can’t vote, which is very annoying, but I try to do as
much as I can to let the government know that all these students here, we want
our voices heard.” Frida Roper, 17, said
she was suffering from severe “eco-anxiety” as evidence mounted of the scale of
the climate breakdown. “I watched the climate
debate last night and two of the party leaders didn’t even bother to show up
[Tory party leader, Johnson, and Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage]. It’s one
of the most important topics regarding everyone’s future, more important than
Brexit … if this doesn’t happen, I won’t have a future.”....
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