Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 8:32:43 GMT
The fight against climate change is an action that belongs to all of us, however, children are also contributing. For this reason, recently the children decided to hold a school strike and go out to demand actions in favor of the environment.
Dozens of students planned to stop classes France Mobile Number List and take to the streets to demand that elected officials act. It's a movement called #FridaysForFuture, which began with Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old environmental activist, who in August 2018 began skipping school on Fridays to protest in front of the Swedish parliament.
The teenager is an example for hundreds of students, so much so that they now decided to go out and protest for more measures to prevent global warming.
In Greta's case, she has said she will not stop her sit-ins until Sweden is in line with the Paris Agreement, an agreement that aims to limit this century's global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Now Greta has inspired students in countries such as Australia, Thailand, Uganda, the United Kingdom and other countries, as well as 1,200 cities.
In addition, there is also Sofía Bianchi, who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She participates in community radio, does classical dance and leads a United Nations workshop with young people two years younger than her.
What is the point of going to school if climate change can destroy all hope for the future? This is what the student protesters are asking.
According to a 2018 report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this question stands out because world leaders have only eleven years (2030) to avoid disastrous levels of global warming.
However, if the pace of carbon emissions remains the same, the planet will exceed the permitted temperature (1.5ºC) above pre-industrial levels in 2030.
If temperatures rise, there will be more droughts, forest fires, floods and even food shortages for millions of people.
Therefore, if climate change is to be stopped, the report says that rapid and far-reaching changes are required in land use, energy sources, infrastructure and industrial systems.
Will protesting children really help achieve this goal?
In an open letter published in The Guardian newspaper , a group of youth-led climate activists called climate change “the biggest threat in human history” and said young people will no longer accept inaction from world leaders. They are taking matters into their own hands, “whether you like it or not.”
“We have the right to live our dreams and hopes,” the letter says. “Climate change is already happening. People died, are dying and will die because of it, but we can and will stop this madness.