We’ve relied on adults to make the right decisions to ensure that there is a future for the next generation – surely we don’t have all the answers. But what we do know is that we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground, phase out subsidies for dirty energy production, seriously invest in renewables and start asking difficult questions about how we structure our economies and who is set to win and who is set to lose.
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It is so important that this happens now. The kind of changes that need to happen will take everyone recognising that this is a crisis and committing to radical transformations. We strongly believe that we can fight off the most damaging effects of climate change – but we have to act now.
Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Kyra Gantois, Anna Taylor, Anuna De Wever
In Deutschland wird heute in mehr als 200 Orten schulgestreikt. Die Aufforderung der Kinder lautet: Die Erwachsenen mögen sich anschließen. Diese Liste zeigt wo und wie jede und jeder das tun kann: fridaysforfuture.de