Young students across the world plan to skip class on Friday, claiming that they will devote the day to protesting man-made climate change.
Students from more than 70 countries will skip class on Friday, March 15, to demand that their governments take more action on addressing climate change, according to #FridaysForFuture, a youth-led movement that is behind the strike.
Tens of thousands of students will reportedly take part in the event.
“We will no longer accept this injustice. We demand justice for all past, current and future victims of the climate crisis, and so we are rising up,” read an open letter that the activists published on the Guardian, claiming they would be protesting on “every continent” on Friday. “Thousands of us have taken to the streets in the past weeks all around the world. Now we will make our voices heard.”
350.org, an international environmental group, is helping bolster the strike with its own promotional video.
Activists are hoping to closely mirror the youth-led March For Our Lives protests in Washington, D.C., which took place nearly a year ago following the fatal Parkland, Florida, school shooting, and spark more debate among lawmakers about the dangers of climate change.
Activists in the U.S. are making similar demands that are found in Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal: a swift transition to 100 percent renewable energy, a complete abolition of fossil fuels and other environmental mandates.
The group strongly references the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 report, which claims the world only has a few years to dramatically reduce carbon emissions or else face dire environmental consequences.
“We have the right to live our dreams and hopes,” the letter continues. “Climate change is already happening. People did die, are dying and will die because of it, but we can and will stop this madness.”
The protesters in Washington, D.C., will enjoy the presence of one well-known adult figure: Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The freshman Democrat, who has made national headlines recently for a slew of anti-Semitic remarks, says she will attend the strike along with her 16-year old daughter, Isra Hirsi, an organizer of the protest.
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I thought these kids went to school to learn something like math, physics, sound science…
Apparently I was wrong.
They were brainwashed by the greens.
Why bother to go to school. The world will end in 12 years anyway.
A really smart bartender, I mean freshman Congress Woman told me so.
I have used a similar argument in the past. According to many, many past prediction we only had a limited amount of time to save the world and need to take drastic action to do so. We didn’t do it and the time for action has passed. That means we blew it. Saving the world is no longer possible. If saving the world is impossible, then there is no reason to take any action to fight anthropological climate change.
Makes you wonder what kind of lies their feeding to these kids. Just think of The Child Crusade or maybe think of this as Pinnochio and Pleasure Island where naughty boys are taken turned into Donkeys and spend the rest of their lives hauling coal with no mommy or daddy
I don’t know about the rest of the world, but where I live school districts get their money from the state based on attendance. To the extent that kids skip school to attend protest rallies, the schools that have followed the climate change indoctrination are getting what they deserve in reduced income.
The kids are demanding a rapid transition to 100% renewables, and I assume this doesn’t include nuclear. I bet not even one in a hundred know that there is no such thing as solar power or wind power. What we have a system where wind power coupled with fossil fuel power plants that cut in when the wind isn’t blowing. It is the same with solar. I bet that much less than one in a hundred of these kids know there is no feasible technology to store power enough energy to run our power grids for when renewables are not available.
David, funding based on attendance is calculated on a few school days per year when the count is made, not every day. I can remember when my kids were in K-12 where we’d get notice to please try to make sure the kids were in class on those days.
Well at least they will get some fresh air . Why not take a few months off ?
Er… well no that would impact the socialist hypocrite teachers just a little too much .
Any day away from eco-anarchist is a good day . Walk the talk .. no fossil fuels , cell phones (made from fossil fuels ) for a year . Lets see how that goes over .
When schools become propaganda camps it’s time for a new model .
Maybe the kids should be shown pictures of Birds that have become victims of the Renewble energy like Wind Turbines and acres of solar panels