Last year, Greta Thunberg, a teenager from Sweden, started the first school strike outside the Swedish parliament, urging the government to acknowledge climate change and take preventive action. The world slowly started paying attention, and pupils from other countries, inspired by her actions, went on similar strikes. On 15 March, the movement culminated in a massive protest of children against climate change. From Europe to Australia and the US, more than 1,700 strikes took place to warn about the devastating effects of climate change and urging their governments and the world to act now.
One strike organizer in the US, Nadia Nazar, said, ‘We’re the first generation that’s being significantly affected by climate change, and the last generation that can do something about it’. Another US organizer, 14-year-old Karla Stephan added, ‘Ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s death; it’s a crime against our future’.
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